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?
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.
@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 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)