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Comment on What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022)

I still don’t understand why Hacktoberfest get so much hype. I don’t even understand Hacktoberfest meanings. Is it to get shiny badges on GitHub accounts?

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ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.

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- pylapp@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So annoying. It is useless to bring gamification to open source projects. It won’t enhance quality nor bring reliable contributors. People should contribute to FLOSS projects without such things IMO.
  
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  - ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m not sure that’s true. It attracts attention and can induce momentum to get people familiar with a particular project or just open source contribution in general.
    
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