DigitalOcean accepts criticism and switches its #Hacktoberfest to be opt-in: https://github.com/digitalocean/hacktoberfest/pull/596
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Require PRs be in a repo with hacktoberfest topic and be accepted by MattIPv4 · Pull Request #596 · digitalocean/hacktoberfest
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To reduce spam and make Hacktoberfest an opt-in event, only consider pull requests that are submitted in a repository that has 'hacktoberfest' as a repository topic. Fur...
To reduce spam and make Hacktoberfest an opt-in event, only consider pull requests that are submitted in a repository that has 'hacktoberfest' as a repository topic. Fur...