This is peak comedy to me.

Here's that YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8F0nW6S-w

Starting at around 1:12:00 they fork express.js and show how to make a pull request.

There’s even a pinned comment from 5 months ago telling everyone to not create test PRs on official repos!

They've now added a GitHub action to detect spam pull requests:

https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5480/files

You'd be surprised how many repos have to deal with spam pull requests from people running broken spell checkers, trying to farm brownie points.

This was also a huge obnoxious issue when I think GitHub was offering some kind of promotional T-shirt for a certain number of open source related pull requests.

There needs to be a way to setup a filter that auto denies comment only based PRs, unless it comes from a dev with a certain minimum "reputation / contribution" threshold score.

You might be thinking of digital ocean's hacktoberfest