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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by quadrifoliate on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:57AM (#31628150)
> The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming.

Huh? I don't think it's "the kid"'s fault that some random organization is using GitHub orgs as a proxy to get people to sign their Terms of Service. If the org or group is on GitHub, it's only a matter of time before someone is going to mention it.

The emotion and stress should be on the org admins who thought that asking every user who signs their ToS to a group called `developers` would be a good idea.

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by michaelmior on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:30AM (#31628303)
I don't think the parent commenter was arguing that the creator of the PR is to blame. But even they're not to blame, it's probably not a pleasant experience.
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