Yesterday's related thread:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894</a>
GitHub have provided instructions on how to limit your repositories to prevent PRs from new contributors:<p><a href="https://github.community/t/hacktoberfest-help-for-maintainers-interaction-limits/135367" rel="nofollow">https://github.community/t/hacktoberfest-help-for-maintainer...</a>
Perhaps if they change it to "four accepted pull requests" rather than just "four pull requests", then we'd see less of the nonsense.