Great, so apparently my Github account has been flagged, without them ever notifying me of this, and now I cannot do my work, which earns me income. Amazing
Love tech companies
I guess all my own projects are on my own Gitea, at least...
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
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)
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.