Are Hacktoberfest contributions checked by an API now? Could you not require the maintainers to tag the PR "Hacktoberfest contributed" and only that would get you a tee? People would know not to submit junk because the maintainers wouldn't give them the label for junk.
That would be an order of magnitude more maintainer effort than flagging spam is right now. Not to mention that the number of maintainers being aware of this event is probably quite low.
How is it more effort to label legitimate PRs than to label spam PRs? Are you saying legitimate PRs are an order of magnitude more than spammy PRs? Because it sure doesn't look like it.
> Are you saying legitimate PRs are an order of magnitude more than spammy PRs? Because it sure doesn't look like it.
The numbers quoted elsethread look like that to me. Not necessarily the full 10x difference, of course, but choosing just between these two systems it appears clear to me that there would be more work for maintainers and/or significantly less people being eligible for T-Shirts because few maintainers are actually aware of Hacktoberfest if every PR had to be tagged by the maintainer to count for eligibility.
