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This reads like a "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" kind of situation. Why would you ever want to name yourself malware, let alone to use it "with the inte

by urda 9y ago

This reads like a "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" kind of situation. Why would you ever want to name yourself malware, let alone to use it "with the intent of working on some new open source stuff"? From both a professional and personal point of view that's an asinine decision. I'm going to have to side with GitHub on this one. EDIT: Not really sure why downvotes (-2 at time of this edit update) are heading my way here, mind chiming in and contributing to the conversation then?

aylmao 9y ago
Especially if the account is hardly used, like he describes on the post itself. Looks like he was just holding the name because it was cool. I agree, it's a bummer that they're taking that cool username away, but it's not surprising or wrong. EDIT: as of writing this comment the account has 0 repos, 1 starred repo, and 1 follower.
zamalek 9y ago
> Not really sure why downvotes The HN rules ask that you don't discuss these, even if they are cowardly. Corrective upvotes will occur (and have occurred here).
jperras 9y ago
> Why would you ever want to name yourself malware, let alone to use it "with the intent of working on some new open source stuff"? Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`? The whole point of the account was to publish things that I didn't deem worthy of my other accounts. Having a terrible name was kind of the point.
- urda 9y ago
  > Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`? Not sure, but I wouldn't be shocked if they are at risk themselves, those aren't exactly great either. I'm also not GitHub, nor do I care if they end up getting in trouble for those names either. > The whole point of the account was to publish things that I didn't deem worthy of my other accounts. Then you shouldn't really be concerned what is or isn't your GitHub username then. > Having a terrible name was kind of the point. And thus "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" ended up being the result. QED.
mdekkers 9y ago
Not really sure why downvotes Perhaps because your post comes across as mostly subjective value judgements, with a sprinkling of holier-then-thou between the lines?

by urda 9y ago

aylmao 9y ago

Especially if the account is hardly used, like he describes on the post itself. Looks like he was just holding the name because it was cool. I agree, it's a bummer that they're taking that cool username away, but it's not surprising or wrong. EDIT: as of writing this comment the account has 0 repos, 1 starred repo, and 1 follower.

zamalek 9y ago

> Not really sure why downvotes The HN rules ask that you don't discuss these, even if they are cowardly. Corrective upvotes will occur (and have occurred here).

jperras 9y ago

> Why would you ever want to name yourself malware, let alone to use it "with the intent of working on some new open source stuff"? Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`? The whole point of the account was to publish things that I didn't deem worthy of my other accounts. Having a terrible name was kind of the point.

urda 9y ago
> Why not? What about the (currently in use) github user names such as `hacker` or `virus`? Not sure, but I wouldn't be shocked if they are at risk themselves, those aren't exactly great either. I'm also not GitHub, nor do I care if they end up getting in trouble for those names either. > The whole point of the account was to publish things that I didn't deem worthy of my other accounts. Then you shouldn't really be concerned what is or isn't your GitHub username then. > Having a terrible name was kind of the point. And thus "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" ended up being the result. QED.

mdekkers 9y ago

Not really sure why downvotes Perhaps because your post comes across as mostly subjective value judgements, with a sprinkling of holier-then-thou between the lines?