GitHub: Block the Bullies

Re:GitHub: Block the Bullies by mojombo on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @12:18AM (#2605938)

As it stands, when you are added as a collaborator to a project it shows up in exactly one place — your private, logged in dashboard. It doesn't show up publicly anywhere.

You must make a contribution to a project before you show up in any kind of public fashion.

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Re:GitHub: Block the Bullies by jmaygarden on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:40AM (#2606117)

I got "dong markup" in my RSS reader from pull requests to zedshaw/mongrel2 today. So, the trolling was very much in public view.

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Re:GitHub: Block the Bullies by mileszs on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @09:40AM (#2607176)

As Zed mentions in the article, he contributed to the project, which is why it showed up in your RSS feed.

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Re:GitHub: Block the Bullies by jmaygarden on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:07PM (#2608817)

Actually, the RSS feed was for zedshaw/mongrel2. It showed up because these trolls were spamming pull requests to a legitimate project.

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Re:GitHub: Block the Bullies by rcthompson on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:51AM (#2606137)

Wouldn't it be possible for the troll to temporarily set his username to the same as yours in his git config, make a few commits, and then push them, thereby making it look like you had made a contribution to the project? Would this make your "membership" in the project appear publicly?

Or does Github track pushes by the pusher's Github username?

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Re:GitHub: Block the Bullies by vytis on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @03:58AM (#2606451)

I think it tracks everything with the public key that you use to push to github. The username will look the same, but will not be linked to your account.

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