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I honestly don't see what's the big deal, and, if anything, why this isn't grossly abused all the time. I mean, that's just how Github works, isn't it? Anyone c
by krick 4y ago
I honestly don't see what's the big deal, and, if anything, why this isn't grossly abused all the time. I mean, that's just how Github works, isn't it? Anyone can tag anyone, uh, yeah, ok, whatever. Looks like an intended feature to me. Does Github have problems with sending 400k notifications at once? Doesn't look like that, but if it did, I guess they shouldn't have implemented such a feature, or allowed 400k users to sign up. Someone sent you, or 10, or 400k people a message they are not interested in? Well, yeah, I guess that's pretty much the essence of internet messaging (or human communication in general), it happens to everyone daily. So, what's the problem?
- Gigachad 4y agoIt's somewhat unique because of the odd situation the UE org is in. It isn't an internal company org, you get invited after accepting their terms and conditions which grants you access to the source code. Which means literally anyone can join this org and then ping 400k users. I'm not sure there is any other org/repo which this is possible. Yes it is expected behavior but its the scale and particular nature here that has turned expected behavior in to a dangerous tool.
- bspammer 4y agoWhat’s stopping someone from tagging everyone with “buy the hot new $SCAM cryptocurrency”? I’m amazed this wasn’t abused before.