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Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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It's a legitimate concern, like having a spammy clickbait article. The site infringes on Github's trademarks all over the place. Can the site still get users' time and attention without stealing Github's branding?

When it's a tool that is explicitly built off of the Github platform, it doesn't seem unreasonable that they mention Github. If Github cares, let them file a C&D or just talk with the author--it isn't our job to play trademark police. It's entirely too negative a behavior on our part.

>If Github cares, let them file a C&D or just talk with the author--it isn't our job to play trademark police. It's entirely too negative a behavior on our part. //

TMs are for consumers. It's entirely a consumers business to ensure that they are not being deceived as to the origin of goods and services they receive solicitations for. Yes GitHub should also be concerned but it's not their concern alone.

TMs benefit us in preventing financial incentive for scammers and frauds.

Expressing trademark concerns can be a positive thing, as here.

My initial view of the page had me assume that it came from the owners of Github™ as it used the name in the domain and used a [partial] GitHub [imitation] logo as a full viewport bg-image and mentions "on GitHub" in the most prominent page copy as if you're on GitHub.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't intent to use these elements to make the site appear to be "official".

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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post #46

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Same problem here. I filled out my city just as other developers who show up for my city have done but it still says "We couldn't find your city from your location on github :("

Looking at the source repo, it is not using real-time API results. Probably have to wait for the devs to sync it again. https://github.com/vdaubry/github-awards

Darnit, I'd be #4 in my city if only it recognized me!

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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> I don't pay for my GitHub account so that I can have some goofy ranking, or spend 10 minutes wondering, "Is this site really affiliated with GitHub?" If it keeps up, I'll probably migrate to BitBucket at some point. What on earth are you talking about? If you don't care care about your ranking, nobody is forcing you to care. (Yet, you might switch to a rival platform because...?)

It's pretty obvious really. The sites are a distraction I don't want, and they're a distraction I wouldn't have with BitBucket. Yes, in this case it's just a stupid ranking, but in the past there have been more serious fakes, where GitHub has had to step in and tell people a site isn't related to them.

How would you even know about the site, unless you had read about it on HN?

How would moving to BitBucket keep you from reading about it on HN?

If after you read about it on HN, you spent lots of time playing with it or reading and arguing in these comments, and you regret spending that time... how can you blame GitHub for that, and again how will moving to BitBucket help exactly?

Yep, it's pretty obvious, really. That you're very confused.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

#94
post #89

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> i'll make that a lot more visible. // Appears below the fold in what looks like 9pt* for me; I take it the visibility hasn't been improved yet. * checked, it's 10px vs 18px attribution line.

No i havent updated it yet.

FWIW

>I'm vincent author of GitHub Awards,

Which is the start of one of your other comments is also pretty deceptive. You are the "author of github-awards.com a site that is not affialiated with GitHub"; "author of GitHub Awards" gives entirely the opposite suggestion.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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post #35

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You seem to be under the impression that you think this project is owned by github.

No, I never thought that. I was extrapolating what might happen when an (almost) monopolist like GitHub would start to mine, analyze, and sell data like Facebook.

I've always assumed that GitHub do that already, what makes you think they don't mine [meta-]data from users - is it in their articles of association or user agreement?

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

#96
post #28

This brings up something I've been grappling with. How do you get more eyeballs on your open source work? I have a few projects, as does my company, but getting more interest/stars seems like it requires a large investment - substantially larger than any benefit we'd likely derive. "Back in the day" I remember it was as easy as sharing with a few friends or posting on HN, and it would quickly get some traction. Now i…

Personally I have not found this difficult. Get engaged with the community. Follow folks building stuff in your ecosystem on Twitter. Follow them on Github. Then mention them when you release something cool, make good screenshots and a nice intro. It takes one tweet about your project to go heavily retweeted before all sorts of people interested in your future work follow you, and so it goes on and on. Of course this…

> "Finally, don't forget to star your own repos. This puts them into GH newsletter the next day (“starred by people you follow” section, assuming you already got someone following you), and also will put these repos on your profile page above your forks of other people's projects."

I was not aware of this. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

#97
post #52

The cool thing is, of course, to find like-minded people locally! It would be nice to be able to see results by specifying a geographic radius.

I agree with this. This might be an awesome way to connect with some local developers. Unfortunately, the location feature is practically useless (for now) as proven multiple times here in the comments section.

Another proof: My city is actually called Brčko, but most of the people around here just use generic English keyboard and they type in Brcko instead. Of course, they're considered as two different cities.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

#98
post #77

I'd like to call out for the author of this that you are in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines: > ## Naming projects and products > Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names. (Reference: https://github.com/logos ) Edit: Why the downvotes? It's valid, and if someone had used my company name in their unauthorized, misleading and…

Hi, Vincent here, author of Github Awards. Thanks for pointing this out. There is already a small note in footer stating that this site is no way affiliated with the Github company, i'll make that a lot more visible.

The name still breaks the naming section of GitHub's terms. It doesn't matter if you put a disclaimer on it.

Naming projects and products

Please avoid naming your projects anything that implies GitHub’s endorsement. This also applies to domain names.

Edit: Also the background breaks this:

Please don’t do these things

Create a modified version of the Octocat or GitHub logo

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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When it's a tool that is explicitly built off of the Github platform, it doesn't seem unreasonable that they mention Github. If Github cares, let them file a C&D or just talk with the author--it isn't our job to play trademark police. It's entirely too negative a behavior on our part.

> If Github cares, let them file a C&D or just talk with the author--it isn't our job to play trademark police. It's entirely too negative a behavior on our part. // TMs are for consumers. It's entirely a consumers business to ensure that they are not being deceived as to the origin of goods and services they receive solicitations for. Yes GitHub should also be concerned but it's not their concern alone. TMs benefit…

If you assumed it came from Github, well, I can't help you.

I mean, there's a useful question there: if we are to support remixing and hacking and whatnot, do we also need to stop assuming that any work referencing a company is automatically endorsed or representing that company?

I'm honestly kind of surprised that anybody thought this came from Github--least of all, because they seem to just post things on their own domain. That being, you know, the point of having a domain.

Re: Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub

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It sounds like you're opposed to the gamification; care to explain why? I'm curious.

The biggest problem is that gamification tends to provide incentives to improve your efficiency in affecting the "game" portion, to the detriment of the actual thing being scored. As the game becomes more popular, the game becomes what is important.

that's a flaw in the design of a particular the game and not a flaw of gamification itself. What if you could only be rewarded by doing things properly? By trying to affect the outcome of the game you will be improving how you do things normally.
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