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Re:Ask HN: Is personal GitHub information public domain? by hnysacct on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:06PM (#13265276)
jc4p, you're totally on topic. The issue here is very similar to recruiter sites. Gitpay is doing essentially the same thing where they are scraping data and creating in-active accounts.

This is sometimes annoying, in the case of recruiters. However sometimes it can be useful if the product has potential.

Gitpay possibly originated from a good idea.

Regardless however, they should launched with an opt-out feature. Many such website that scrape content and create accounts _for_ people have an automatic opt-out feature.

You do open a really good question though if this should be allowed in the first place.

Say if I deleted my github account.. by deleting my account, it doesn't get deleted off of this website.

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