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It is in the linked article. "So, the reason for the abrupt ban of all my public repos turned out to be just a random comment I’ve left on GitHub jokingly call
by PappaPatat 7y ago
It is in the linked article.
"So, the reason for the abrupt ban of all my public repos turned out to be just a random comment I’ve left on GitHub jokingly calling a guy a prick."
"Only that I’m more used to GitHub so I’ve posted a (now deleted) issue rather than a tweet. The issue was titled “You’re a [funny-word]” where [funny-word] was a set of latin characters reminding a transliterated Russian half-offensive word for “gay”, while not being equal to that specific word."
- jp_sc 7y agoWait, are you saying that "gay" is a "disgusting sexual comment"?
- notriddle 7y agoIt is when you use it as an insult.
- smsm42 7y agoEven if he did call somebody an offensive word, this looks like gross over-reaction. Deleting the comment - and maybe banning for a day or two from commenting on issues, to get the point through - would be appropriate. Deleting all modules and locking all content other people are using, thus punishing them much more than the original author - is a completely disproportional reaction. The fact that github can and is willing cause massive amounts of breakage to people's code because somebody left mildly offensive comment is really scary.