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GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or thos
by 0xcase 7y ago
GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or those who think it's an excuse to use racist swear words against Asians. This should be a platform for collaboration, behavior like in a YouTube comment section shouldn't be tolerated
- flohofwoe 7y agoThe accounts used in those scripted attacks are obviously throw-aways, removing them won't change a thing.
- Hamuko 7y agoI'm seeing some non-throwaway accounts used, although not really in a spammy sense.
- hokkos 7y agoI see a lot of legit account but used sporadically.
- tandr 7y agoSometimes these are "sleepers" accounts, and they are very valuable in astroturfing and trolling business. Not all of them - I suspect some people are real, and upset about "some developer teaching us how to live". I wouldn't surprised if there is a quite significant chunk of accounts on any soc media sites that are dormant until "the call" comes in.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoI think we will have to go to strong AI to cull these useless commenters or just live with it. Another solution is to allow a project to only accept bug reports from verified (some sort license?) github members. Maybe that old timer Bayesian filtering would work on obvious cases like this.