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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by iuri1 »

montag wrote: post #54
fortran77 wrote: post #23

I 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.

The only way to judge that is to look at the user's contributions. Which I wouldn't do because that could be the point afterall

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by nimbius »

tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

friendly reminder: 400k is an apertif for a competently configured production postfix server. its about 14 seconds of mail, and about 8 seconds optimized at hw and filesystem level.

the real issue here is shitty projects from shitty companies.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by emilyst »

nimbius wrote: post #62
tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

friendly reminder: 400k is an apertif for a competently configured production postfix server. its about 14 seconds of mail, and about 8 seconds optimized at hw and filesystem level. the real issue here is shitty projects from shitty companies.

oh.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by bityard »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #24

Fun fact: at some point I wrote @param in a PR comment, talking about a parameter's doc. I only realized after posting that there was an actual user named @param.

I have a two-letter github username and get tagged accidentally all the time. Also invitations to private repos.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by smcleod »

gnufied wrote: post #60
smcleod wrote: post #18

Anyone 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.

Regardless of the mass notification or a bad quality PR - you don't just remove someone from a major internet platform like this, it's an inhumane response to someone making a mistake.

Not to mention it's just a notification, who really cares unless it happens all the time which is just more of an argument to fix the platform behaviour. Some people are so high and mighty.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by kaetemi »

nimbius wrote: post #62
tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

friendly reminder: 400k is an apertif for a competently configured production postfix server. its about 14 seconds of mail, and about 8 seconds optimized at hw and filesystem level. the real issue here is shitty projects from shitty companies.

A lot of developers seem to underestimate how fast well-written software can process things...

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by gruez »

nop_slide wrote: post #29

There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files What is going on?

Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive?

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by blibble »

pwython wrote: post #27
seba_dos1 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must be hard for GitHub servers, but which e-mail client is crashing from about 100 short, text-only messages received in an hour?

Outlook 2003?

my outlook 365 (or whatever it's called this week) at work can barely handle moving 100 without locking up

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by bmlzootown »

tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

I'm up to about 156 replies between two emails now. My phone and smart watch were buzzing like crazy earlier for each notification.
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