Hi Andrenotgiant -
Could you not limit submissions to only labelled issues?
That way it’s opt in and you reduce spammy PRs.
Many maintainers put “Hacktoberfest” labels on issues they’re happy for newcomers to work on.
Many maintainers put “Hacktoberfest” labels on issues they’re happy for newcomers to work on.
That's why, to deal with the immediate issue we're creating an obvious, even lower-effort route for the impatient participants to take (follow a guide to create 4 PR's on your own repo) - and longer term we'll make bigger changes (maybe including an opt-in only model) that solve the perverse incentive issues that seem to be driving this PR spam.