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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by 0xcase on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:58AM (#21395450)
GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or those who think it's an excuse to use racist swear words against Asians. This should be a platform for collaboration, behavior like in a YouTube comment section shouldn't be tolerated
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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by flohofwoe on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:48AM (#21396265)
The accounts used in those scripted attacks are obviously throw-aways, removing them won't change a thing.
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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by hokkos on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:05AM (#21398511)
I see a lot of legit account but used sporadically.
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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by tandr on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:27PM (#21399466)
Sometimes these are "sleepers" accounts, and they are very valuable in astroturfing and trolling business. Not all of them - I suspect some people are real, and upset about "some developer teaching us how to live".

I wouldn't surprised if there is a quite significant chunk of accounts on any soc media sites that are dormant until "the call" comes in.

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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by Hamuko on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:19AM (#21396853)
I'm seeing some non-throwaway accounts used, although not really in a spammy sense.
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Re:Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters by stjohnswarts on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:20AM (#21396862)
I think we will have to go to strong AI to cull these useless commenters or just live with it. Another solution is to allow a project to only accept bug reports from verified (some sort license?) github members. Maybe that old timer Bayesian filtering would work on obvious cases like this.
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