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Can't say it is a douche move from GH since they are protecting their users' best interests. The facts are: Egor has a way to cause damage to GH. I don't think
by kenkam 15y ago
Can't say it is a douche move from GH since they are protecting their users' best interests. The facts are: Egor has a way to cause damage to GH. I don't think GH would sit there wondering whether he would do the ethical thing.
_If_ something had happened then the reaction would have been totally different. "Why didn't GH ban him when they could have before the damage was done?"
- saurik 15y agoTo be clear: we all had (past tense, as I'm assuming GitHub effectively fixed it) that "way to cause damage to GH"; it isn't a bug that Egor was hoarding, or that only he was in a position to exploit. You can argue all you want that he deserved to have his account banned (I might even agree with you, although I haven't come to a conclusion on that yet), but to claim that it was some kind of required protection that people would legitimately be able to complain about had they not done it is silly: he can still do the damage from a new account, and someone else can do that damage even if he didn't want to.
- masklinn 15y ago> The facts are: Egor has a way to cause damage to GH. I don't think GH would sit there wondering whether he would do the ethical thing. Uh? It takes about 5mn to create a new GH account and push a new set of keys, it's not like killing his account does anything aside from annoying him.