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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 135 points –

Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol

(The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)

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Fun fact: I’m the reason people have to approve being added as collaborators for repos on GitHub now.

Oh boy, go on..

I, too, am interested in the rest of the story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342

The whole dongml thing back in 2011

Reading the context of the YC post (post link is broken), this doesn’t seem like a thing I’d brag about. Sounds like you were just being kind of an asshole, as well as intolerant. There are more amusing and less trollish ways to white/greyhat platforms to encourage people to fix them.

Yep I was trolling zed.

However, accusations of homophobia and sexism are dumb and unfounded, as I’m actually gay.

I was also 20 so… find me one person who didn’t do cringy shit as a kid and I’ll give you a million dollars.

I once had a spambot @ me and like 100 other people I didn't know on a repo I'd never touched before.

I reported it for spam and got an email from Github Support within an hour notifying me that they had taken action.