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You are not damaged by losing a username. You will lose no money, no status, no clients, nothing. If you choose to print your username on the side of your car t
by pc86 3y ago
You are not damaged by losing a username. You will lose no money, no status, no clients, nothing. If you choose to print your username on the side of your car that's your choice and GitHub isn't responsible for that. Your case would be dismissed immediately, in some states with prejudice, and rightfully so.
> It is feedback in a professional manner for disrespecting one of their users/clients.
NO, this is emphatically not what the court system is for. You don't sue someone (or a company) to "provide feedback." Courts exist for when you are damaged, you need to be made whole, and the parties cannot come to an agreement without a neutral third party.
- rileymat2 3y agoIt really depends on how we treat digital properties, for example, a username on github will link to your identity and work, the same way a domain name might. If a domain name was taken, it would have major consequences, trotting out “we never told you to spend millions on super bowl ads” would be a weird take. Obviously it is based on the contract, but it is not far off.
- pc86 3y agoI don't think a username on someone else's service is comparable to a domain name. You buy a domain name. People go directly to your domain name. I would bet 90% or more of navigations to a github profile are linked from some other source (e.g. easy and borderline immediate to change) as opposed to typed into the url bar directly. To be clear I think it's shitty for GH to change someone's username, especially without a lot of communication first, but I don't think it rises to the level of having any sort of damages you could try to litigate even in the worst cases.