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The whole account has been disabled because it spammed other repos with pull requests mocking feminism.

• deleted 12y ago
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• parennoob 12y ago
  Oh okay, in that case I can understand why it was taken down. I'm assuming you're https://github.com/untitaker https://github.com/untitaker, and I respect your projects a lot. Did you get any troll PRs from them? My impression at the time (from reading news articles and the Geek Feminism wiki) was that it was taken down without any cogent reason. [Also, someone seems to have flagged my original comment so it isn't visible. Could they unflag it, so people can follow the conversation, and how my viewpoint changed? Aside: bit funny that this happened in my comment about censorship against unpopular viewpoints.]
  • MCRed 12y ago
    Yeah, Hacker News is full of not only censorship, but doing it secretly. I've been on this site since at least 2007. For instance, I once had my account hellbanned for talking about how I'd met grace hopper as a kid. Seriously, was the only post in weeks and then poof, gone. The unaccountable unelected masters of Hacker News have acted extremely capriciously and in a very politically biased fashion in the past. I know there have been changes, but Hacker News should have a transparency report. Or some transparency.
• Karunamon 12y ago
  Then why were the forks also disabled? Terminating an account, fine, and perfectly legitimate if they were actually doing that, but also flattening everyone else's copy? That's a bit heavy handed for a parody, don't you think?