I'm mostly surprised the group got to 400,000 before this happened.
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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#152Anyone 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.
Some people just want to be outraged for the sake of being outraged. Looking at the persons who wants the kid to be banned GH profile - I would not expect any other reaction.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#153Oh the humanity! Nobody even reads these notifications since most who work using GH get like 20+ a day.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
They require you to acknowledge some terms that grant you access to the Unreal Engine source code. They grant it by adding you to their GitHub org which has the engine source code as a private repo.
Maybe it's just me but this seems like a misuse of GitHub orgs...
An org and the team was opened to join in March 2015 4 months before the "secret" team functionality was added. No one cared for 7 years!
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#155Slightly OT, but it's always been weird to me how Epic requires you to add yourself to their organization on GitHub before you can access the Unreal source. I don't see how it serves any real authentication purpose; anyone can get added to it, and anyway, it's not like the code is secret when 400k people are on there
Am I missing something?
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#156I honestly don't see what's the big deal, and, if anything, why this isn't grossly abused all the time. I mean, that's just how Github works, isn't it? Anyone can tag anyone, uh, yeah, ok, whatever. Looks like an intended feature to me. Does Github have problems with sending 400k notifications at once? Doesn't look like that, but if it did, I guess they shouldn't have implemented such a feature, or allowed 400k users to sign up. Someone sent you, or 10, or 400k people a message they are not interested in? Well, yeah, I guess that's pretty much the essence of internet messaging (or human communication in general), it happens to everyone daily. So, what's the problem?
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#157Innocent mistake. The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Now his real name is going to stay at the center of the internet for a while thanks to being 1st on HN. I would definitely not have coped well with that much internet attention at his age. Some Github replies are more immature than the initial action and I hope he does not…
I disagree, the PR is some pointless wordsmithing and then to comment "Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous. Also, no one is going to care in a day.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's... odd. Was this a long time ago? Because these days Android has work profiles that specifically exist to let you shove work stuff in its own separate space that can be managed separately from the rest of the device, and Google itself not using the feature that they built into the OS to support that exact situation would seem really weird.
Yeah, it was a while ago, and it's possible that I could be remembering some details wrong. It just struck me as "no, I would rather carry a separate work phone if I have to."
Oh yeah, given that choice I would, and have, done the same! I just thought it was a mostly solved problem these days (but would like to know if not)
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#159Innocent mistake. The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Now his real name is going to stay at the center of the internet for a while thanks to being 1st on HN. I would definitely not have coped well with that much internet attention at his age. Some Github replies are more immature than the initial action and I hope he does not…
Some have speculated based on the changes that it was not a well-meaning PR, that it was just an attempt to game the system (similar to what hordes of people do on Hacktoberfest). Of course it's hard to know
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#160I 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 person who submitted it
Is, according to their github page, a nary 18 years old.
One cannot say in good faith that they were a beacon of perfect judgement at 18. Anyone who says so is either looking to buy or sell a bridge in New York.