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Well, in US law they might not be. But in other countries, is more complicated than that. In Brazil, those kinds of bans behaviors are not ok under consumer p

Well, in US law they might not be. But in other countries, is more complicated than that. In Brazil, those kinds of bans behaviors are not ok under consumer protection laws, and also their TOS where they don’t guarantee anything even for paid accounts is definitely not ok and suable for damages if something happens.

tptacek 4y ago
Good luck. You know that there are some optics to how responsive you are to these comments, and how un-responsive you are to comments that asked you to say more about what your "controversial comments" were. I'm beginning to think they might not just have been about ad blockers.
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  > I'm beginning to think they might not just have been about ad blockers. Did the first line about regretting the comments not indicate that pretty clearly? I really don't want to accuse you of being deceptive for rhetorical effect, but are you actually "beginning" to think this? Am I completely misreading your comments? Edit: This comment was a waste of space and I didn't express myself well but I was half a minute too slow on the delete button.
  - tptacek 4y ago
    It's not at all clear to me what the comments were, and I don't think the level of regret matters really at all to the analysis. If I punch you in the nose, I will surely regret it moments later, but that isn't going to save me much trouble.
- siproprio 4y ago
  I said in another comment, most of the comments were on the Python extension repo for Vscode, about the quality of the extension and feature choices, many people were criticizing as well, and the trend of moving towards closed source.
  - pvg 4y ago
    You keep saying that but haven't described any of the comments in anything but the vaguest terms - so vague that the descriptions alone sound like an implausible basis for a ban.
    - siproprio 4y ago
      I don't wish to link my identity to this hn account. This is what I got from gh support: ``` Your accounts were disabled following reports that its content or activity may have been in violation of the following prohibition found in our Acceptable Use Policies: "We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that: is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users" Specifically, the activity that was reported included posting repetitive and disruptive comments in Visual Studio repositories, which we found to be in violation of our Acceptable Use Policies. ```
      - pvg 4y ago
        You were reported for saying something about open source and github banned you for it? This still doesn't seem to add up at all. How many comments are we talking about? Did they contain, oh, I dunno, slurs? And again, you can paraphrase the comment(s) which you seem to remain very reluctant to do.
        siproprio 4y ago
        No slurs. No offenses. No bad words, no cursing, etc. I’m not going to paraphrase because the threads were erased. I don’t have most of the comments actually. Mail me at my username at duck.com and I’ll send you the handles of the account, you can search GitHub yourself.
        tptacek 4y ago
        If the comments are as boring as you're suggesting they are, you don't have a real problem. Tell your manager what happened and work with them to arrange an account you can use.

tptacek 4y ago

Good luck. You know that there are some optics to how responsive you are to these comments, and how un-responsive you are to comments that asked you to say more about what your "controversial comments" were. I'm beginning to think they might not just have been about ad blockers.

Dylan16807 4y ago
> I'm beginning to think they might not just have been about ad blockers. Did the first line about regretting the comments not indicate that pretty clearly? I really don't want to accuse you of being deceptive for rhetorical effect, but are you actually "beginning" to think this? Am I completely misreading your comments? Edit: This comment was a waste of space and I didn't express myself well but I was half a minute too slow on the delete button.
- tptacek 4y ago
  It's not at all clear to me what the comments were, and I don't think the level of regret matters really at all to the analysis. If I punch you in the nose, I will surely regret it moments later, but that isn't going to save me much trouble.
siproprio 4y ago
I said in another comment, most of the comments were on the Python extension repo for Vscode, about the quality of the extension and feature choices, many people were criticizing as well, and the trend of moving towards closed source.
- pvg 4y ago
  You keep saying that but haven't described any of the comments in anything but the vaguest terms - so vague that the descriptions alone sound like an implausible basis for a ban.
  - siproprio 4y ago
    I don't wish to link my identity to this hn account. This is what I got from gh support: ``` Your accounts were disabled following reports that its content or activity may have been in violation of the following prohibition found in our Acceptable Use Policies: "We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that: is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users" Specifically, the activity that was reported included posting repetitive and disruptive comments in Visual Studio repositories, which we found to be in violation of our Acceptable Use Policies. ```
    - pvg 4y ago
      You were reported for saying something about open source and github banned you for it? This still doesn't seem to add up at all. How many comments are we talking about? Did they contain, oh, I dunno, slurs? And again, you can paraphrase the comment(s) which you seem to remain very reluctant to do.
      - siproprio 4y ago
        No slurs. No offenses. No bad words, no cursing, etc. I’m not going to paraphrase because the threads were erased. I don’t have most of the comments actually. Mail me at my username at duck.com and I’ll send you the handles of the account, you can search GitHub yourself.
        tptacek 4y ago
        If the comments are as boring as you're suggesting they are, you don't have a real problem. Tell your manager what happened and work with them to arrange an account you can use.