One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
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#2It's convenient that Digital Ocean has a scapegoat for 2020 but his video doesn't explain the previous years of spammy pull requests.
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#3What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
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#4Misaligned incentives always cause trouble, scapegoats not withstanding.
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#5What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
T-shirts are worth significantly more (relatively) in poorer parts of the world. It might be worth 0.5hr of average wage in the us but be worth 5hr of average wage in India.
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#6What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
T-shirts are worth significantly more (relatively) in poorer parts of the world. It might be worth 0.5hr of average wage in the us but be worth 5hr of average wage in India.
I thought of that, but if you’re wealthy enough to watch YouTube and submit PRs on GitHub, is that really that much of a reward?
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#7What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
Couple minutes, free t-shirt, I'm sure folks say "why not?"
At the local sandwich shop folks will stand in line for an hour to get a free crappy sub $5 sandwich...
Otherwise some folks in other theads indicated that in some places, specifically india, participating in hacktoberfest and getting PRs was good for resumes and educational recognition.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
T-shirts are worth significantly more (relatively) in poorer parts of the world. It might be worth 0.5hr of average wage in the us but be worth 5hr of average wage in India.
I thought of that, but if you’re wealthy enough to watch YouTube and submit PRs on GitHub, is that really that much of a reward?
You can be pretty damn poor and do both of those things.
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#9What I don’t get is... why do this for a t-shirt? Am I missing something?
Why not? If it takes 3 minutes of effort and you get to say you've been there (a developer) and you got the t-shirt.
Re: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
#10Any sufficient large number of people will behave idiotically (from lat. idiota, ignorant)