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GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#92Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
Ouch.
I try to not mix work and personal content on the same laptop, I’ve seen too many glitches (although usually not quite that embarrassing). Slack has been my one exception (although only on my phone). Thanks for the valuable reminder.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#93And the unsubscribe feature doesn’t even work.
It does but each comment adds 400k emails to the queue before you, so all of the comments that happened before you unsubscribed are already queued. I unsubscribed and it did eventually stop.
I was sleeping and the constant new mails notification woke me. By then it was too late to unsubscribe as the topics was already locked, but I was only on like 60-70th mails.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#94Do not miss out on the essential contribution to Unreal Engine that the first line of the PR here makes: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#95I 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…
The PR is still from a kid, who is likely figuring things out and looking at his commit history, I don't see any similar commits in other high profile projects. I agree it is a useless PR but the best thing here is to tell him not to do it and move on. Calling for a ban is excessive.
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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#97Maybe they were an intern
Not an Epic employee.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#98I empathize with that kid - his intentions were probably good but I'm pretty sure he didn't know this would have sent email notifications. Even if he had known, kid wouldn't have known that it is a bad bad thing. :D Kid probably was creating a PR to brag tomorrow in school!
>he didn't know this would have sent email notifications
Even if it sent push notifications to everyone's browser and phone that doesn't seem much better. When you type an @ it gives you are description of a group and the description makes it clear that it's not the people related to reviewing his PR. He was just trying to send as many notifications as possible to try and get people to look at what he did.
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#100The 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.
Yeah I’m sure they’ll institute some kind of control to make this sort of thing harder, but honestly I’ve never understood why people get so worked up about this sort of thing. It makes me chuckle. The person looks like a dummy or a shit-stirrer and a lot of people have to delete HUNDREDS (oh my) of messages and have LITERAL MINUTES of their time wasted. The megacorp I work for wastes more of my time with silly self-congratulatory org-wide emails about business deals and fake benefits like seminars on retirement planning for dummies.
I love me a good bedlam drama. One of the commenters on the PR had the best take: “I just wasted 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back.” The ones with the scorched earth PUNISH HIM attitude need to chill the hell out.