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I will check in with our githubcustomers group to help accelerate. I can also directly inform our engineering team if you're open to sending me your information

I will check in with our githubcustomers group to help accelerate. I can also directly inform our engineering team if you're open to sending me your information at thejoebourneidentity@github.com Either way, we're looking into this issue and I'll post an update here once we've learned more.

p8952 5y ago
Asking end users of your product to report issues via DM'ing your personal Twitter account, an account which is full of retweets of homophobic garbage, is really REALLY bad. Quietly editing your comment after being called out to hide it is even worse.
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  Agreed. Thanks for pointing this out. I'm genuinely curious now what their Twitter profile is, but my guess is they'll delete the tweets or remove the Twitter account. Microsoft notoriously hires a lot of people from the Federal Sector who unfortunately appear to be mostly right-wing religious zealots.
  - encryptluks2 5y ago
    Nm, found it: https://twitter.com/JoeB_in_NC https://twitter.com/JoeB_in_NC First thing is a retweet from Ben Shapiro.
    - geofft 5y ago
      This is the same company whose sales team celebrated their ICE contract with little American flag and eagle emoji (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31...) and eventually decided to donate all their proceeds from the ICE contract (i.e., their motivation was helping ICE, not making money). Everyone here lives under capitalism. Making money is fine. Saying "If you pay us, we'll take your money" is totally expected. But that's not what they're doing here. But GitHub is now a MAGA-converged organization pushing a social agenda, and you can see it in the quality of their engineering.
    - hnarn 5y ago
      Yikes. This is the strangest thing I've seen on HN in a long time. How can someone responsible for product at Github (!) think posting your private twitter account in a context like this is acceptable, and even more so when it's filled with this garbage.
      - subsection1h 5y ago
        Joe Borne works at GitHub only because it was acquired by Microsoft. He's been in the industry for more than a decade but his GitHub account was created only in 2016, and this is his sole public repo: https://github.com/thejoebourneidentity/vm-stats https://github.com/thejoebourneidentity/vm-stats I know multiple people who left GitHub after it was acquired by Microsoft because of unsatisfying experiences they previously had with Microsofties. It seems that they made the right call.
    - vegadw 5y ago
      I didn't actually see anything overtly homophobic/transphobic, though there's some border control posts he liked/retweeted that go a bit into the racist side. Not someone I'd want to hang out with, but I don't see anything like what was being said. Still, what could possibly make anyone think posting a personal twitter handle for this was a good idea. That alone makes me question that he should have the role he does at GitHub.
    - root_axis 5y ago
      I disagree with their politics and think it's unprofessional to conduct business through a personal twitter account made up of partisan political retweets regardless of the politics, however I don't think it's necessary for you to repost this person's twitter account after they removed it from this thread, it will only lead to unnecessary harassment. I hope that you or the moderators remove it.
      - geofft 5y ago
        It's the first Google result for 'joe bourne github twitter'. He's not trying to keep it a secret, and I don't know why we should keep it secret for him. Is he supposed to be embarrassed about it?

p8952 5y ago

Asking end users of your product to report issues via DM'ing your personal Twitter account, an account which is full of retweets of homophobic garbage, is really REALLY bad. Quietly editing your comment after being called out to hide it is even worse.

encryptluks2 5y ago
Agreed. Thanks for pointing this out. I'm genuinely curious now what their Twitter profile is, but my guess is they'll delete the tweets or remove the Twitter account. Microsoft notoriously hires a lot of people from the Federal Sector who unfortunately appear to be mostly right-wing religious zealots.
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  Nm, found it: https://twitter.com/JoeB_in_NC https://twitter.com/JoeB_in_NC First thing is a retweet from Ben Shapiro.
  - geofft 5y ago
    This is the same company whose sales team celebrated their ICE contract with little American flag and eagle emoji (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31...) and eventually decided to donate all their proceeds from the ICE contract (i.e., their motivation was helping ICE, not making money). Everyone here lives under capitalism. Making money is fine. Saying "If you pay us, we'll take your money" is totally expected. But that's not what they're doing here. But GitHub is now a MAGA-converged organization pushing a social agenda, and you can see it in the quality of their engineering.
  - hnarn 5y ago
    Yikes. This is the strangest thing I've seen on HN in a long time. How can someone responsible for product at Github (!) think posting your private twitter account in a context like this is acceptable, and even more so when it's filled with this garbage.
    - subsection1h 5y ago
      Joe Borne works at GitHub only because it was acquired by Microsoft. He's been in the industry for more than a decade but his GitHub account was created only in 2016, and this is his sole public repo: https://github.com/thejoebourneidentity/vm-stats https://github.com/thejoebourneidentity/vm-stats I know multiple people who left GitHub after it was acquired by Microsoft because of unsatisfying experiences they previously had with Microsofties. It seems that they made the right call.
  - vegadw 5y ago
    I didn't actually see anything overtly homophobic/transphobic, though there's some border control posts he liked/retweeted that go a bit into the racist side. Not someone I'd want to hang out with, but I don't see anything like what was being said. Still, what could possibly make anyone think posting a personal twitter handle for this was a good idea. That alone makes me question that he should have the role he does at GitHub.
  - root_axis 5y ago
    I disagree with their politics and think it's unprofessional to conduct business through a personal twitter account made up of partisan political retweets regardless of the politics, however I don't think it's necessary for you to repost this person's twitter account after they removed it from this thread, it will only lead to unnecessary harassment. I hope that you or the moderators remove it.
    - geofft 5y ago
      It's the first Google result for 'joe bourne github twitter'. He's not trying to keep it a secret, and I don't know why we should keep it secret for him. Is he supposed to be embarrassed about it?