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by jmuguy 41 days ago
I wonder what Hacktoberfest would look like now if they were still giving out t-shirts to everyone. Probably not enough cotton in the world.

It can't be on individual maintainers to stop this, imo its on Github (and Gitlab) to stop these sort of accounts from even getting to the point of submitting PRs. Its essentially spam.

Look at the user who created the first PR they reference https://github.com/Samuelsills. This is not an account that should be allowed to do anything close to opening a PR against a well known repo.

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An account with zero activity doing nothing shouldn't be allowed to continue doing nothing? Did you share the wrong account here maybe?
Its the account that posted this PR https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/pull/6257
I could have swear it said "0 contributions in the last year" when I opened the profile before, and it showed no activity in the contribution graph, but now I check again and it shows a bunch of stuff... Guess some request failed last time or something, my bad.
Given the troubles GitHub has had recently its not a stretch to think that you just got some sort of error.