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  • Not exactly the same, but I've noticed a pretty sizable uptick in the number of spam/scam PR comments being left on GitHub (and a longer delay before they're removed after report).

    Not the worst thing in the world, they're easy to spot, but I'd like to see GitHub invest more time in protecting their users from falling victim to these bad actors.

    by joshuat
  • Lack of moderation is an issue everywhere, because there are few consequences for the platforms.

    Booking.com kept a clearly fraudulent listing (images clearly stolen from another Booking.com listing with mirroring + some filters) fully online for at least two days (I got distracted and stopped taking daily screenshots after that). I just got a response that they've taken it down almost 10 days after I had initially reported it (although I think they marked it as not bookable some time before that).

    by tgsovlerkhgsel
  • Three weeks? Try almost three years:

    https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-github-ever-remove-this-null...

    by bananamogul
  • They’re presumably too busy with keeping availability above nine sixes
    by Havoc
  • I recently found "free" version of Lossless Scaling on GitHub. The release installer is definitely malware. It took GitHub 3 days to shutdown malware distribution. Category of my ticket was malware report, not copyright infringe
    by OCTAGRAM
  • Please give GitHub some slack, just check out the massive number of copilot changes they've had to release over the last 3 weeks (https://github.blog/changelog/). There's clearly little time left for security, maintenance, or reliability work.
    by rcleveng
  • If GitHub staff is still reading this thread, maybe you can take down https://screenmemory.github.io/ as well. I reported it 4 weeks ago, ticket ID 4703161
    by wingerlang
  • Author of the post here. Github finally took the offending page down approximately 10 minutes after the post appeared on the front page of HN. Total coincidence. I'm sure!

    Moral of the story. If you want even the most basic level of support from Github, you need to get on the front page of HN first.

    And it seems they are able to do things very quickly, when they want to. Bastards.

    by hermitcrab

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