Known (significant) collateral damage so far:
- My Matrix spec contributions, including at least one MSC that I wrote
- My NixOS contributions, including some fairly important contributions to RFCs
- Any work done for $customer that lives on Github

No response from Github yet. This is uh, maybe not a great way to deal with flagged accounts?

This also seems like a pretty strong argument to *not* do any sort of spec work on Github, because apparently they will just disappear it with no recourse

Like, to be clear, the 'collateral damage' here is that all of those things - any issues or PRs I've created anywhere, any comments I've left on other people's issues or PRs - are just *gone*. No indication. As if they've never existed.

This means that historical parts of multiple standards processes have just... disappeared. For no good reason. With no recourse for the standards organizations involved.

I have just learned that Github's data export is, *at the very least*, missing Gists and all of my contributions to repositories that *aren't* mine. The only thing included is the data for my own repositories. What the hell.

I've posted an updated summary of the situation, as its own post: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110733995438668688

@joepie91 This should be a warning to all communities that tie their identity specifically & only to a proprietary service they do not control.

@joepie91 That is... seriously disconcerting.

I mean, you get flagged, OK, some automated system probably figured there's a good reason to do that (whether that system is correct is another matter, of course), but the complete erasure of history, without quick response to your questions, is absolutely unacceptable.

@max Yeah, this is exactly the problem I have with it. I could even understand hiding the content by default, pending review - but not *without any sort of indication* to other users, not without notification towards me, and they should really have something in place for quick resolution.

@max Like there's that "this comment has been hidden due to being marked off-topic" thing, for example - that would be a completely reasonable implementation of this system...

@joepie91 Exactly. This is one of the worst ways of dealing with it.

(I mean, if an account was flagged and it was actually for a Very Good Reason, sure, after a while you could think about really removing content from view, but there should at the very least be some sort of cooldown period where people have a chance to see wtf is going on)

@ezri Yeahhhh