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Glad I completed my Hacktoberfest requirements earlier; a little bummed that the shirt will invariably = low quality contributors.

A better way to do this IMO would be to kick off a year long contest; for example: you sign up, every week you need to average +7 lines of code on your own repo. Bonus points if the repo actually does something useful. After a year of that, you get a Tshirt.

Weeds out the lazy, encourages people to actually build something.



This would encourage me to automate adding 7 lines every month. Not sure if that would be in line with the goal :)




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