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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by kenrose »

spike021 wrote: post #33
cmckn wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a thundering herd e-mail at Amazon about 10 years ago that I’ve heard stories about. It went on for days. There’s a funny internal talk with lots of data about it, maybe it’s on YouTube by now…

Something similar happened at Cisco something like maybe 5 years ago? Someone sent the Bay Area employees or whatever list (probably at least some tens of thousands of employees) an ask for a cook/chef they could hire to make meals for their family, IIRC. I think the reply-all's happened all week.

MS in 2005 as well.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by thejosh »

shhsshs wrote: post #38
adamnemecek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By doing “ @EpicGames/developers”

Does @EpicGames/developers really have 400k users? That seems like a lot of developers.

Yes, to get access to their repositories you have to be granted access. It's source available, not opensource.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by x86_64Ubuntu »

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…

He's not adding fuel to the fire, he understands what is happening and is trying to convey the urgency to the owners of the repo.

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Post by oddity »

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…

Every large org I've ever been at has had someone reply-all to a company-wide mailing list and then promptly spawn a flood of more company-wide reply-alls. Slack's @channel/@here has made this even worse. On a good day, people have a laugh, tell them not to do it again, and we all move on. The only difference here is that it's in public on github.

I suspect there's some psychological phenomenon that convinces people that norms expected of them have somehow been broken because of the chaos.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by iuri1 »

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?

This is truly "Epic": https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestrevie...
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