As I recall, your account got suspended because of this and suddenly became extremely apologetic when you realized you needed your account for work the next day.

There's a big difference between a security hole and acting like a jackass.

if you look at the IRC logs for the day you'll see i specifically warned some employees what i was doing hours before i did it. you'll also see i was instantly unbanned and was making jokes about how my boss would be mad at me if i got banned from github.

i could have easily not been detected doing this. i chose to to spam the site to see how fast it could respond. i got those 2k users in about 3 minutes or so....

I don't get it? It looks just like the "explore" page on github... am I missing something?

the top trending project is a project he created to get to the top of the trending projects list.

The number of watchers on the first repository.