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Usually the protection against such spam is social shame but the internet is now full of people who have no shame because shame was never part of their culture.
by throwaway85825 9mo ago
Usually the protection against such spam is social shame but the internet is now full of people who have no shame because shame was never part of their culture. It would be more effective to use GeoIP in this case.
- direwolf20 9mo agoInternet reputation became easy to launder, thus meaningless.
- com 9mo agoIt’s not just the Internet. It’s politicians and businesspeople and more generally, shameless citizens. There’s a lot to dislike about shame as an enforcement mechanism but I’m starting to miss some of the upside it delivered.
- brikym 9mo agoI wonder how much of it could be stopped just by charging $5 a month to contribute to public open source repos. Even if github gave the $5 back in LLM credits or something it would at least put up a barrier. The reason there is so much traffic from third world countries is because the cost of accessing the internet is effectively zero.
- OGEnthusiast 9mo agoGitHub has zero incentive to do this because it would hurt their analytics/metrics.