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1. hermitcrab · 1790267696 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

   1. koolba · 1790268882 · focus · HN ↗

      > 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.

      This also works for Google support.

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

      I wouldn’t chalk any of this up to malicious intent. I’m sure they are swamped with such requests.

      It was already a problem before agents could automatically perform these actions.

      And it’s not something you can really automate on their end either. At least not the judgement call on the removal. Imagine if there was a fully automated process and it inadvertently took down a legit project.

      1. rcleveng · 1790306003 · focus · HN ↗

         Unfortunately this is very true. It often takes someone pretty high up on the food chain to see it on HN, X, or get an email/LinkedIn message asking about something for it to become a priority.

         I don't see that changing for any of the large companies unfortunately, anytime soon.

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