Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol

(The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I once had a spambot @ me and like 100 other people I didn't know on a repo I'd never touched before.

I reported it for spam and got an email from Github Support within an hour notifying me that they had taken action.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I remember that time some guy pinged nearly 40k people and single-handedly delayed GitHub's email servers by about 4.18 hours

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your Markdown link is backwards. It should be [link text]/(url) (delete the slash obvs)

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 6 months ago

aaaaargh I don't want get old 😭

[–] smowtenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oh hey, it recently happened to me too.