And the unsubscribe feature doesn’t even work.
You can leave the team on GitHub.
This assumes the sole purpose of that team is to get spammed
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#52I don't get this comment on github: > Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github. Wasn't the message send…
The triggering comment was this
> Perfect for gorgeous looks, can push asap @EpicGames/artv2-admin @EpicGames/developers @EpicTeamAdmin
The entire diff of the PR is:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b0b4f5d..61b95bb 100644
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# Epic Games
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Unreal Engine is now [free](https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free)!
-To access our repositories, sign up for a free account at [UnrealEngine.com](https://www.unrealengine.com) and register your GitHub ID using [these instructions](https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github).
+To gain access for our repositories, sign up a free account on [UnrealEngine.com](https://www.unrealengine.com) and register your GitHub ID using [these instructions](https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github).
-After that, you can find our repositories here:
+After that, you may able to find our repositories here:
* [Unreal Engine](https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine)
* [Unreal Tournament](https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealTournament)
(Note that you must be signed into GitHub for these links to work.)
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+Have Fun !!Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#53I don't get this comment on github: > Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github. Wasn't the message send…
The original PR did nothing but add grammar errors to the README, with a mismatching PR description and title, then demanded that it actually be merged. I read this as a way to waste people's time, from there it's just a question of how many people. This user's bad intentions colour their entire interaction, both the deliberate and accidental parts, because this accident would not have happened if they weren't screwing around in the first place. If the PR were real, it should be treated as a teaching moment instead. If it were a PR made for learning purposes that was accidentally posted publicly, they wouldn't have demanded a merge.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#54I don't get this comment on github: > Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github. Wasn't the message send…
The actual PR looks so poor that I can't imagine it was submitted in good faith.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#55Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#56I don't get this comment on github: > Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github. Wasn't the message send…
I agree. Even if it's possible there was mischievous intent here I feel like the configuration issue or something being used in a way it shouldn't be is the real story here.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#57can someone explain how this isn't the intended behavior?
It may be intended behavior, but for a trivial change like this to easily, without warning, mass ping ~400k users that is not desirable behavior. The submitter thought he was pinging developers of the project, but instead pinged mostly people who do not handle accepting upstream changes. Discord for examples handles mass pings by showing you a warning dialog saying you are about to ping X many people and if you are sure you want to do that.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#58https://github.com/nerual deserves a peace nobel
what did this user do?
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#59I don't get this comment on github: > Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github. Wasn't the message send…
The original PR did nothing but add grammar errors to the README, with a mismatching PR description and title, then demanded that it actually be merged. I read this as a way to waste people's time, from there it's just a question of how many people. This user's bad intentions colour their entire interaction, both the deliberate and accidental parts, because this accident would not have happened if they weren't screwi…
Ok! I'm sorry that I didn't look at the PR itself. I get a lot of these on my projects, mostly from kids/students who I think just want to look like they want to build "reputation" and say they've contributed to n open source projects.
However I still suspect the notification was unintended.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#60Anyone could have done this by mistake, all it'd take is being a bit tired and @ing the wrong group. The question is - why doesn't the platform warn you that you're going to send notifications to a large number of people in the same way that many email clients do?
Yeah not sure why calls for getting the poster banned from Github - https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24#issuecomment-114... . Seems bit excessive, murphy's law applies.
Also the poster is essentially a kid. I would hold my judgement before flaming him fwiw.