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People who blame that kid are ridiculous. People who are asking to punish him somehow are pathetic. There should be no way to send any non-premoderated informa
by EugeneOZ 4y ago
People who blame that kid are ridiculous. People who are asking to punish him somehow are pathetic.
There should be no way to send any non-premoderated information to 400k people (from the system that has some trust and is unlikely to be filtered) - “spam” is the most innocent thing that might happen. It's just a fly you should ignore.
Political, religious, and radical extremist groups could use it for a much more dangerous impact. If it so incredibly easy to send a message to 400k users, malicious actors could find some more sophisticated ways to get an audience of millions of users for their needs.
- elif 4y agoagree, whatever that kid did, it is not as bad as the first commenter there spamming everyone knowingly. which is not as bad as the second commenter who is even less original yet still seeking attention, ad infinitum. the last commenter is the biggest jerk IMO.
- remram 4y agoIf anything I'm surprised no one spammed ads this way. At least now it's sure to happen so GitHub is going to have to fix it.
- johnnyanmac 4y agopart of it is timing. This happened late Saturday night in America. If this happened during normal daytime hours it woulda been shut down in a few messages. Also, I'm sure Github has spam filters itself, so obvious attempts at ads may not even make it to the PR discussion.
- johnnyanmac 4y agoThe kid was annoying but if the discussion was closed and restricted immediately it wouldn't have amounted to much (Granted, it was a very late Saturday night for Epic's timezone, so I'm not surprised it lasted a few hours). The follow up is what made this headline news. Now the dude who posted goatse and ruined the whole thing should be completely banned from Github. I guess I see why image uploads were restricted for so long there.