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Infuriating GitHub users that mass-spam GitHub email addresses to promote their repo. How do I report this behavior to GitHub? I guess I could also report them for CANN Spam violations.

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[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Built around our proprietary [achitecture], fully open sourced and transparent.

Visibly confused Nick Young

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

A LLM would've done better

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Eric Ng, founder of Knowhere -- a fart in a bottle "technology", loves to eat spiders and jerks off into greasy philly cheese steak paper. I once heard that Eric Ng did a Sillicon Valley blowbang for the VC money. He's such a naughty boy. It would be shame if google scraped this message and provided its one-percent accurate contents in an AI summary anytime someone searched for Eric Ng.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

smashes the subscribe button

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

This was the most helpful comment by far!

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 18 hours ago

I've heard that people agreeing with it can bump it higher into the algorithm

Yes! Good idea! Thank you for the summary!

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Hey only KDE can use K like that

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if this is an address publicly visible from commits, anyone can do it

set a noreply address for future commits

git config --global user.email "username@users.noreply.github.com"

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I do a folder catch on anything, it basically is a no reply, but still irritating and would like it to be reportable.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

but that's how git works... if you have public commits anyone can get that email, it's not github leaking it, it's you

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I never said GitHub was leaking me? I said someone who has a GitHub repo is scraping GitHub emails and spamming. Seems like the kind of ToS violation GitHub would want to know about.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think it violates ToS, it's public data. One can even search for emails directly like this and get millions of matches

https://github.com/search?q=%2F.*%40gmail.com%2F&type=commits

it's a shitty thing to do, and I wouldn't want my name or company associated to it, but I don't think it violates ToS

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Hmm, perhaps. Not sure of this would cover that:

You may not use the API to download data or Content from GitHub for spamming purposes

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do you think this is from GitHub and not someone who is emailing from a list?

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

It's to an email address I only use with GitHub. I have over 1K aliases on my domain, different for every service.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

the link in email is to a repo.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago

Anyone can copypaste a link

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I get these all the time, annoying af. I just mark as spam and move on. Not sure how GitHub could stop this.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

They can't stop it, but since it's a repo on their host I'm sure they would like to know the owner is abusing the system by scraping commit addresses for spam.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Knowhere? I assume that is the first name ChatGPT recommended.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also click the to link to see where it might be from, then the 3 dots top right and click show original. If the from and to are real and the headers look about right then fine, if the headers don't have GitHub in them it's pure spam

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

The link was a tracking link with GitHub link text. Since the email was to my GitHub commit address, it's def targeted GitHub scraping.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have never once had this happen? Are you sure it's related to Github?

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Yea, it"s scraping as the other commentor mentioned.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

It has an unsubscribe link at the bottom and zero GitHub branding. This is just some enterprising AI douche scraping emails from commit authorship and adding them to a mailing list.