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This year Hacktoberfest has taken a turn for the worse. Starting on the first day of October, thousands of spam pull requests were opened with the sole intent of merging 5 pull requests to gain a free T-shirt. This left a huge burden on maintainers as well as other contributors. In this video I talk about the effect of this year's Hacktoberfest as well as how it can be fixed.

? Concepts Covered:

- What Hacktoberfest is
- The burden Hacktoberfest puts on maintainers
- Why spam pull requests effect more than just the maintainers
- How to improve Hacktoberfest

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:44 - What Is Hacktoberfest?
02:57 - The Spam Problem
05:43 - The Greater Impact of Spam PRs
07:42 - The Solution

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