GitHub Scams Are Getting Out Of Hand...

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 104

  • @TheStarfox707
    @TheStarfox707 9 месяцев назад +136

    Author here: Thanks for making a video about the article, and thanks for adding your thoughts and experiences to it! Just updated the article to add a link to this video!

    • @AlexPeraPera
      @AlexPeraPera 9 месяцев назад +2

      well written and good content, congrats

    • @justingolden87
      @justingolden87 9 месяцев назад +1

      Great article man!

    • @carvierdotdev
      @carvierdotdev 9 месяцев назад +1

      Very good article man!!

  • @benoityves8722
    @benoityves8722 9 месяцев назад +281

    Their anti-spam bot accidentally banned Github co-founder. The saga continues.

    • @rawallon
      @rawallon 9 месяцев назад +45

      If github doesn't exist also there's not github spam, flawless logic

    • @crtp47
      @crtp47 9 месяцев назад +7

      @@rawallon then, no humans no orders

    • @rawallon
      @rawallon 9 месяцев назад

      We need humans to have order

    • @kaushikkumar1139
      @kaushikkumar1139 9 месяцев назад

      they should start using nightbot

    • @subhrojeetdutta5170
      @subhrojeetdutta5170 9 месяцев назад

      My Github acccount was tagged as spam 15day ago and still there isnt any progress

  • @Skenvy
    @Skenvy 9 месяцев назад +46

    The dropdown on a comment does include a "report" option, but it would seem it only appears in repos that you have at least one commit/merge in. The solution appears to just be letting it be an option in the dropdown for comments that tag you.

  • @wywarren
    @wywarren 9 месяцев назад +45

    Still remember Epic Games repo from a couple years ago blasting out multiple emails/notifications to 400k devs.

    • @WasiMaster
      @WasiMaster 9 месяцев назад

      Just over one year ago not couple years

    • @wywarren
      @wywarren 9 месяцев назад

      @@WasiMaster it’s 4 months off from 2 years ago, it happened June 2022 but sure

    • @xanderplayz3446
      @xanderplayz3446 9 месяцев назад +2

      @bobmadeofspongewhich doesn’t matter

  • @brunopanizzi
    @brunopanizzi 9 месяцев назад +17

    I swear every video is an excuse for Theo to show off the cool sliding admin panel that he built on twitch

    • @0xmassive526
      @0xmassive526 9 месяцев назад

      how much of it did he build tho?

  • @AliciaSykes
    @AliciaSykes 9 месяцев назад +35

    GitHub does not reuse PR numbers.
    That spam was posted as a comment on the existing PR.

    • @yourmomsboyfriend3337
      @yourmomsboyfriend3337 9 месяцев назад +20

      If you watch one more minute he finds this out

    • @AliciaSykes
      @AliciaSykes 9 месяцев назад

      @@yourmomsboyfriend3337 Yeah, I saw that just after I posted! 😆
      Was just surprised Theo didn't know that, given he's a bit of a GitHub pro

  • @Kane0123
    @Kane0123 9 месяцев назад +8

    Want number go up? Opt people in automatically
    Want number go down? Make the process span pages and designs.

  • @infinitivez
    @infinitivez 9 месяцев назад +14

    In my opinion, any website that allows user generated content, and doesn't have an easy way of reporting abuse, has no business allowing user generated content on their website. Having had run aground of a new social media site just recently, that had ZERO report options, where a user had been peddling illegal images (you know the kind), made me sick to my stomach. HOW in the year of our tech overlords 2024, do we not have a report option baked into every UI/UX by this point?

    • @infinitivez
      @infinitivez 9 месяцев назад

      @@kishirisu1268 just curious why your mind would jump to making passing accusations like those, when nothing I said would suggest the sort?
      I find it all too telling the moment anyone online mentions the proliferation of this material on websites, that an anime profile containing a nearly half naked child will ultimately appear out of nowhere to discuss the morals of CSEM, and to defend Lolicon.
      We don't have to visit your vestiges to see this crap, Kishirisu. Your ilk post it on main, hide it on newer social media sites that don't have adequate reporting methods, etc. You can f right off.

  • @Bricefriha
    @Bricefriha 9 месяцев назад +6

    I'm getting spammed with crypto airdrop scams these days.
    And it seems like there is nothing we can do, we can't even prevent people from mentioning us and "spam" is not an option when you report

  • @ees4.
    @ees4. 9 месяцев назад +6

    The problem with this is that beginners get thrown into spam filters

    • @dumbfailurekms
      @dumbfailurekms 9 месяцев назад +1

      deservedly

    • @asagiai4965
      @asagiai4965 9 месяцев назад +1

      This and it should be separated.
      Github allows themselves to be a repository of some sort.
      So they actually have a duty on that.

    • @ees4.
      @ees4. 9 месяцев назад

      @@asagiai4965 But beginners with legitimate questions are marked as "spam" and "trolls".

  • @sqr00t
    @sqr00t 9 месяцев назад +13

    Can we just opt out on anything in content that has "cryptocurrency" in it? Especially, if you're not developing on Web3 projects?

  • @DJTimeLock
    @DJTimeLock 9 месяцев назад +1

    Wouldn't github users be more or less the worst target audience for scammers? They're pretty much all into tech. Which means they're more aware than others about scams. Heck they even have more tools than most to deal with them.

  • @jacksonbourne
    @jacksonbourne 9 месяцев назад +1

    I think adding "verified bots" to each repository would solve a lot of this. Then, just lock it down based on a bunch of predicates

  • @pelic9608
    @pelic9608 9 месяцев назад +4

    I _was_ wondering what wordpress devs are doing these days.

  • @herrkatzegaming
    @herrkatzegaming 9 месяцев назад

    Twitch has a decent mod platform but doesn't have a specific chat for only moderators. That's something I want

  • @pencilcheck
    @pencilcheck 9 месяцев назад +11

    spam or scam??

    • @0-Kirby-0
      @0-Kirby-0 9 месяцев назад +6

      Por que no los dos?

  • @not_ever
    @not_ever 9 месяцев назад +7

    GitHub is run by interns and junior developers. Nothing will convince me otherwise. Lots of things are suspect from a security point of view.

    • @tobi-b
      @tobi-b 9 месяцев назад

      Github is their non enterprise version

  • @robmorgan1214
    @robmorgan1214 9 месяцев назад +9

    This is one of the primary reasons I will never use the hubs... porn git etc.

  • @froxx93
    @froxx93 9 месяцев назад

    I was getting a spam insta message the second I opened this video. I feel being watched

  • @tszhong0411
    @tszhong0411 9 месяцев назад

    I got two "Airdrop" spam too.

  • @lukafireman
    @lukafireman 8 месяцев назад

    Yeah, but bots are flagged as bots, I see no reason why they can't filter index these out.

  • @AstonJay
    @AstonJay 9 месяцев назад

    Wait... Are you using Tuomas' Boxio program? Or what browser are you using?

  • @parkourbee2
    @parkourbee2 9 месяцев назад

    Only send an email notif if they're a contributor, org member, or I'm following them.

  • @AlexWerner42
    @AlexWerner42 9 месяцев назад

    If you can go back, and you display big the concerns of the report, then shouldn't the click equate to a Next ? (8:35, reporting twitch flow)

  • @ITR
    @ITR 9 месяцев назад +87

    The irony of the author using AI art

    • @TomNook.
      @TomNook. 9 месяцев назад +11

      Beats paying 50 bucks just for a blog piece

    • @kepper104
      @kepper104 9 месяцев назад +6

      and?

    • @sonicfind
      @sonicfind 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@TomNook.they could just… use a stock image

    • @ryanquinn1257
      @ryanquinn1257 9 месяцев назад

      They have stock art from their design team of octocat

    • @TheStarfox707
      @TheStarfox707 9 месяцев назад +17

      Yes, I did generate the Art using Dall-E 3, but the difference between that and AI Spam is that I didn't spam anyone with it. I used it for my article because I thought it looked cool and have no artistic ability myself. I don't think the tools shouldn't exist just because they can be used for bad, AI is coming whether you or I like it or not, so we need to figure out how to deal with the bad before it gets really bad.

  • @cheesiestmaster879
    @cheesiestmaster879 9 месяцев назад

    One solution is if the comment hits enough flags, contact the lead maintainer of the repo, and hide the comments from anyone else

  • @QSLWCOM
    @QSLWCOM 9 месяцев назад

    I'll probably just turn off email notifications if the spam continues. I don't have an urgent need to know what´s happening on github.

  • @kajoma1782
    @kajoma1782 9 месяцев назад +1

    Nick was sweating when they watched this video

  • @stephenjames2951
    @stephenjames2951 9 месяцев назад +2

    If you make reporting harder you have to hire less people to handle reports.

  • @gdissleeping5719
    @gdissleeping5719 9 месяцев назад +1

    They've marked my account as spam for over a month now for no reason 💀

    • @blankvoid4137
      @blankvoid4137 9 месяцев назад

      Mine too. They flagged my account for no reason and now I can't login anywhere using GitHub.😢

  • @jodp
    @jodp 9 месяцев назад

    I thought it was just me! Crypto scams on decade year old issues or something are very common

  • @Karbust
    @Karbust 9 месяцев назад

    Can’t block spam, but some automation banned GitHub’s founder… Goes figure…

  • @lucybiddle3912
    @lucybiddle3912 9 месяцев назад

    I'm currently rate limited from submitting user reports 🙃🙃

  • @nicosoftnt
    @nicosoftnt 9 месяцев назад +6

    WHEERE ISS MY PS5?????

  • @TeddyEDMOND-p6u
    @TeddyEDMOND-p6u 9 месяцев назад

    wait? because a post is deleted you cant report its? we all know that deleted doest not really existe. the id of this post should still be available and be reported, the only way a post can no longer be reported should be if the user of this post is deleted...because in the end posting and deleting is spamming too

  • @ScottMaday
    @ScottMaday 9 месяцев назад +1

    Cold take: Crypto has done far more harm than good when it comes to world finance. The only acceptable use is to use a mainstream coin and anyone into crypto who doesn't either severe brain damage or a degenerative gambling problem.

  • @JellyMyst
    @JellyMyst 9 месяцев назад

    I have a reflexive distrust of Trust & Safety stuff with how they've been abused to push political agendas, so I like sites to err on the side of just letting users be users, including the bad ones.

  • @alefdoreu
    @alefdoreu 9 месяцев назад

    fire thumbnail

  • @subodhkamble6480
    @subodhkamble6480 9 месяцев назад

    I get crypto spams from github and twitter both 🤦‍♂️

  • @kipchickensout
    @kipchickensout 9 месяцев назад

    Spam spam spam spam wonderful spam

  • @pinoniq
    @pinoniq 9 месяцев назад

    Force accounts that want to post a certain amount of comments per day/week/month to go through an identification process. Problem solved.

  • @rickdg
    @rickdg 9 месяцев назад

    GitHub is doing a Microsoft. Never do a Microsoft.

    • @thripnixe
      @thripnixe 9 месяцев назад

      Don't make sense

  • @thomas_217
    @thomas_217 9 месяцев назад +1

    hello theo

  • @igortolstov487
    @igortolstov487 9 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine having all this time not only to worry about spam, but also writing articles about it

  • @MajorBreakfast
    @MajorBreakfast 9 месяцев назад +2

    I bet that reuse of the PR id is deliberate. That way, lot's spam content can't bump the IDs to infinity.

    • @tefkah
      @tefkah 9 месяцев назад +5

      the id is not reused, it was not a malicious pr, it was a comment on a pr

    • @totallynotgad
      @totallynotgad 9 месяцев назад +5

      i wonder why he didnt just cut that misunderstanding out of the video, it seems like it would avoid allot of confusion like this

    • @tefkah
      @tefkah 9 месяцев назад

      @@totallynotgad agreed, gotta get that extra midroll ad in there or something

  • @rawallon
    @rawallon 9 месяцев назад

    2

  • @SeRoShadow
    @SeRoShadow 9 месяцев назад

    the delete flag was invented for a reason

    • @Walter_
      @Walter_ 9 месяцев назад +1

      im never letting you on my team LOL

  • @meelix7758
    @meelix7758 9 месяцев назад +4

    god please no. the next youtuber just reading someone elses articles aloud for thir own publicity 👎👎👎

    • @dealloc
      @dealloc 9 месяцев назад +7

      ... and commenting on it, adding additional context ...

    • @meelix7758
      @meelix7758 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@deallocalright to be fair his content is a lot better then the shlt primagen produces, the commentary is a lot more insightful and down to eath. and he doesn't make a new community pole every 3 minutes like the primagen only to be shocked that the majority of the industry isn't doing the same thing he has to do at netflix.
      it's still low effort content that barely provides any value

    • @electric26
      @electric26 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@meelix7758damn, yeah I used to like Prime, but now he's gotten... weird, annoying, produces useless content... Just bad at this point tbh

    • @dumbfailurekms
      @dumbfailurekms 9 месяцев назад

      his videos are either reacting to someone else's content or making a scrunchy face and going "Web dev is herd"