Re:GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing tra...
by luckylion on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:17PM
(#22631239)
> They reinstated the account 1hr after official appeal.
Yeah, because it got traction on HN and Twitter. Pretty much the same happened to somebody else just three days ago, and, wouldn't you know it, after their rant [1] made it to the HN front page [2], Github finally reacted to the appeal after having spent a week ignoring it.
If you expect to ever have troubles with GitHub, you better have a following or some luck to be posting at the right time.
[1] https://medium.com/@catamphetamine/how-github-blocked-me-and... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593595
You comment is only relevant to those posts who are used as a last resort, usually after waiting days or weeks without any human response. AFAICT the tweet was done pretty much simultaneously, perhaps in an attempt to hasten response time.