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Comment by stevebmark | Hacker News Reader

Hi. catamphetamine knows exactly what he did, and he knows he deserves to be banned. He has made continuous disgusting sexual comments harassing people who open tickets on his open source projects. The fact he didn't mention this in his blog post is also disgusting. By the way I'm not related to any of this, I just happen to remember seeing his terrible comments, and like an idiot, public under his name, on his own open source projects.

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Can you provide some examples of such behavior? I randomly went through some issues but was unable to find any such thing

It is in the linked article.

"So, the reason for the abrupt ban of all my public repos turned out to be just a random comment I’ve left on GitHub jokingly calling a guy a prick."

"Only that I’m more used to GitHub so I’ve posted a (now deleted) issue rather than a tweet. The issue was titled “You’re a [funny-word]” where [funny-word] was a set of latin characters reminding a transliterated Russian half-offensive word for “gay”, while not being equal to that specific word."

Even if he did call somebody an offensive word, this looks like gross over-reaction. Deleting the comment - and maybe banning for a day or two from commenting on issues, to get the point through - would be appropriate. Deleting all modules and locking all content other people are using, thus punishing them much more than the original author - is a completely disproportional reaction. The fact that github can and is willing cause massive amounts of breakage to people's code because somebody left mildly offensive comment is really scary.

Wait, are you saying that "gay" is a "disgusting sexual comment"?

It is when you use it as an insult.

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