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I wonder how long that will last until GitHub bans them for (presumably) massive amount of spam. The fact that it's PRs only, not just issues, makes it a bit ha

by f2n 9y ago

I wonder how long that will last until GitHub bans them for (presumably) massive amount of spam. The fact that it's PRs only, not just issues, makes it a bit harder, but I can't imagine it'd be that hard to abuse

analogj 9y ago
To be honest, I was worried about that as well. But it's been pretty good so far. Gitmask always adds a comment in the PR mentioning where the PR is comming from, so in the event of any projects/repos getting spammed, I can hopefully disable PR's being opened against those projects.
- sbarre 9y ago
  To that end, you may want to include a prominent note on the website about how to report abusive activity and what your policy is for dealing with it. Simply having that easily accessible may got a long way.
  - analogj 9y ago
    Good point.
    - datamingle 9y ago
      Could also rate limit 1 PR for a given repo per day. Perhaps even have a queue.
      - analogj 9y ago
        I don't really want to go down the rate limit route quite yet, but it could be an option.
- jarofgreen 9y ago
  Can I also suggest making this opt-in per repo? I don't want this in my repos at all. Oddly enough, just last week I got in a row with someone else with exactly the same idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7kp73c/anonymous_pull_request_on_github/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7kp73c/anonymo...
jarofgreen 9y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted; given what we know about abuse online, especially in anonymous systems, I'd question if this project should even exist. GitHub put a lot of work into their anti-spam systems and this basically let's people bypass that completely. If I was them I'd shut it down right now.
- wybiral 9y ago
  Because unfortunately people don't take kindly to critique around here.
- jwilk 9y ago
  From the HN guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

by f2n 9y ago

analogj 9y ago

To be honest, I was worried about that as well. But it's been pretty good so far. Gitmask always adds a comment in the PR mentioning where the PR is comming from, so in the event of any projects/repos getting spammed, I can hopefully disable PR's being opened against those projects.

sbarre 9y ago
To that end, you may want to include a prominent note on the website about how to report abusive activity and what your policy is for dealing with it. Simply having that easily accessible may got a long way.
- analogj 9y ago
  Good point.
  - datamingle 9y ago
    Could also rate limit 1 PR for a given repo per day. Perhaps even have a queue.
    - analogj 9y ago
      I don't really want to go down the rate limit route quite yet, but it could be an option.
jarofgreen 9y ago
Can I also suggest making this opt-in per repo? I don't want this in my repos at all. Oddly enough, just last week I got in a row with someone else with exactly the same idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7kp73c/anonymous_pull_request_on_github/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7kp73c/anonymo...

jarofgreen 9y ago

Not sure why this is getting downvoted; given what we know about abuse online, especially in anonymous systems, I'd question if this project should even exist. GitHub put a lot of work into their anti-spam systems and this basically let's people bypass that completely. If I was them I'd shut it down right now.

wybiral 9y ago
Because unfortunately people don't take kindly to critique around here.
jwilk 9y ago
From the HN guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.