> 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.
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.