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Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2020

    Hacktoberfest contribution controversy

    Hacktoberfest 2020 was criticized because its free-shirt incentive encouraged a wave of meaningless or spam pull requests against open-source repositories. Critics described the effect as an unintended burden on volunteer maintainers. DigitalOcean responded by requiring participating projects to opt in, enabling maintainers to mark submissions as spam, and excluding repositories created to manipulate the event.

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