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I'm going with, no, GitHub shouldn't have banned your account. Disproportionate response. They've bundled several different functionalities together in a GitH

I'm going with, no, GitHub shouldn't have banned your account. Disproportionate response. They've bundled several different functionalities together in a GitHub account, but the core functionality is to publish public git repos, or access private ones. Account banning for abuse should relate to you not being trusted to do those actions, not the secondary actions. If you published deceptive malware repos masquerading as other projects, sure, ban the hell out of you. If you use your private repos as the nexus of a botnet, likewise. "Use your stars to participate in GitHub popularity contests" is, like, a tertiary functionality of your GitHub account at best. If you can't be trusted with that, it should be separable from the rest of your account. Set a flag on your account that prevents your star from contributing to votes. Hell, give me a config option that lets me turn off my stars counting. Banning your account wholesale is overkill and unreasonable.

gambiting 4y ago
For all their faults, that's something that Amazon actually does well - abuse their reviews system, you will lose ability to write new reviews/rate products, but you can still access all other functionality.
- AgentME 4y ago
  It's nice they handle that case well, but Amazon has similar arbitrary account lockout issues. I tried to buy an Amazon gift card for a friend, and I got locked out of my Amazon account entirely, including all of my Kindle ebook purchases and my AWS account (which had some backups in S3). Their system thought my account got hacked and was being used by a hacker to buy a gift card. It took a lot of back and forth interactions with support before I could convince them that there was no hacker involved and I wanted my account back. It was only once I mentioned the large amount of Kindle ebook purchases I lost access to that they finally budged. I even had 2fa set up and my phone number connected to the account that should have been able to verify my account. Thank god it didn't go worse and I wasn't using AWS for anything important at the time.

gambiting 4y ago

For all their faults, that's something that Amazon actually does well - abuse their reviews system, you will lose ability to write new reviews/rate products, but you can still access all other functionality.

AgentME 4y ago
It's nice they handle that case well, but Amazon has similar arbitrary account lockout issues. I tried to buy an Amazon gift card for a friend, and I got locked out of my Amazon account entirely, including all of my Kindle ebook purchases and my AWS account (which had some backups in S3). Their system thought my account got hacked and was being used by a hacker to buy a gift card. It took a lot of back and forth interactions with support before I could convince them that there was no hacker involved and I wanted my account back. It was only once I mentioned the large amount of Kindle ebook purchases I lost access to that they finally budged. I even had 2fa set up and my phone number connected to the account that should have been able to verify my account. Thank god it didn't go worse and I wasn't using AWS for anything important at the time.