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That they use some of their trillion dollar marketshare to solve it, why are you acting like this is a hard problem? It's not. They're just too cheap and greedy to do anything about it.
Trillion dollar marketshare? How big do you think GitHub is?
Martin from GitHub here. This type of behaviour is explicitly against the GitHub terms of service, when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts. It's a game of whack-a-mole for sure, and it's not just start-ups that take part in this sketchy behaviour to be honest. I've been plenty of examples in my time across the board. The fundamental natur…
> when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts. This isn't my experience. I requested that you looked into a spammer in July 2025, you ignored my reply and the account is still active. ---- Thank you so much for the report. We're sorry to hear you're receiving unwanted emails, but it's always a possibility when your public contact information…
And yes of course they can also stop a specific spammer. But that spammer may pick up another account and email.
Email address privacy is a feature offered by Github and replaces your day to day email: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/email...
YC is a proud investor in Flock, what YC Ethics thing are you talking about?
I immediately realize it's engagement farming + free labor. I said "No thanks."
Got this reply: "(...) I'm looking forward to reviewing your PRs. Feel free to share me any of your questions. (...)"
Apparently, no one read my reply - not even AI. They are automating this shit. It's sad that many fall for it (check their Github repo)
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Company: Aden (W20)
Contact: Vincent Jiang, Founder
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> when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts. This isn't my experience. I requested that you looked into a spammer in July 2025, you ignored my reply and the account is still active. ---- Thank you so much for the report. We're sorry to hear you're receiving unwanted emails, but it's always a possibility when your public contact information…
It's impossible for them to stop if you list your email on there. They could make it harder of course. But if you put your email out there for a human to find, then a script or bot or also find it. And yes of course they can also stop a specific spammer. But that spammer may pick up another account and email.
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What was happening with this account? I was often seeing popular but empty (only title of the paper and maybe a short readme) repositories that were created directly after a paper was published?
Just part of the process - he'd queue up the projects as interesting things came in, then plow through. Usually he'd have a rough framework within a day or two, and then a working proof of concept within a week, and then return to the most promising, useful, or interesting projects.
I feel like if you don't want companies to cold-email you, you shouldn't make your email public. Github provides noreply email addresses for this purpose.