No mention that I can see in the landing page about the fiasco that the last 2 Hacktoberfest were (didn't they even have to cancel the one last year mid-way?). I feel like this has gone from one of the most beloved events in the Open Source community, to one of the most dreaded.
Edit: found it, there's mention of it in the Participating subpage, in a couple of subsections (including "SPAM"). However, it still doesn't look too promising, since it seems to put the burden of flagging it as SPAM on the maintainers:
> "PR/MRs that are labeled with a label containing the word “spam” by maintainers will not be counted. [...] PR/MRs that our system detects as spammy will also not be counted."
Edit: found it, there's mention of it in the Participating subpage, in a couple of subsections (including "SPAM"). However, it still doesn't look too promising, since it seems to put the burden of flagging it as SPAM on the maintainers:
> "PR/MRs that are labeled with a label containing the word “spam” by maintainers will not be counted. [...] PR/MRs that our system detects as spammy will also not be counted."