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A GitHub issue where every Russian user was just mentioned

11 points by overlisted 4y ago

rantallion 4y ago
Some of the negative reactions to that issue might be because they didn't appreciate being tagged. I'd guess that most are because they're brainwashed to believe that Russia is saving the day.
- Mo3 4y ago
  Maybe they already know that and just don’t like being spammed on GitHub by some hypocrites. I’d be really mad too if I lived in Russia under that lunatic and couldn’t even code in peace without being harassed.. Users on GitHub are probably among the least likely to buy into Putins propaganda anyway so I can’t see the utility in this besides some self image and ego inflation for the people behind this. And guess what from the perspective of pro-Russian users this is also harassment by “the west” and will only further their sympathy for Mr. P…
- VortexLain 4y ago
  The vest majority of tech specialists in Russia don't believe the propaganda. The real problem is, many don't care about the news at all, just like Chinese.
overlisted 4y ago
My question is: why this is the first time that anyone is ever spamming like this? This is a really effective method and there are a lot more useful ways that this could be used.
themerone 4y ago
I Google translated some random comments and saw calls to ban Ukrainian ips from GitHub.
- norhi999 4y ago
  Because the people who would decide to actually reply there are likely either annoyed, trolls or idiots as it looks like obvious flamebait. In no way this helps to resolve any actual problems in any meaningful ways.
aww_dang 4y ago
Why do people share their location on Github? What functionality do they gain? How does it help them write or share software? It feels completely irrelevant to me.
- voakbasda 4y ago
  People are social animals. Some people probably hope to find others in their area.
ominous 4y ago
404'd by now. Waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20220409175326/https://github.com/heyrussia/Highly-scaled-information-management/issues/1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220409175326/https://github.co...

11 points by overlisted 4y ago

Some of the negative reactions to that issue might be because they didn't appreciate being tagged. I'd guess that most are because they're brainwashed to believe that Russia is saving the day.

Mo3 4y ago
Maybe they already know that and just don’t like being spammed on GitHub by some hypocrites. I’d be really mad too if I lived in Russia under that lunatic and couldn’t even code in peace without being harassed.. Users on GitHub are probably among the least likely to buy into Putins propaganda anyway so I can’t see the utility in this besides some self image and ego inflation for the people behind this. And guess what from the perspective of pro-Russian users this is also harassment by “the west” and will only further their sympathy for Mr. P…
VortexLain 4y ago
The vest majority of tech specialists in Russia don't believe the propaganda. The real problem is, many don't care about the news at all, just like Chinese.

overlisted 4y ago

My question is: why this is the first time that anyone is ever spamming like this? This is a really effective method and there are a lot more useful ways that this could be used.

themerone 4y ago

I Google translated some random comments and saw calls to ban Ukrainian ips from GitHub.

norhi999 4y ago
Because the people who would decide to actually reply there are likely either annoyed, trolls or idiots as it looks like obvious flamebait. In no way this helps to resolve any actual problems in any meaningful ways.

aww_dang 4y ago

Why do people share their location on Github? What functionality do they gain? How does it help them write or share software? It feels completely irrelevant to me.

voakbasda 4y ago
People are social animals. Some people probably hope to find others in their area.

ominous 4y ago

404'd by now. Waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20220409175326/https://github.com/heyrussia/Highly-scaled-information-management/issues/1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220409175326/https://github.co...