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I would guess that the chan board members and other asshats raided their projects in the past, because they regularly attack / harass these kind of projects when they're not fully open source.

And let's put it this way: the moderation tools at GitHub are a bad joke. Can't even disallow abusive language, so they're 100% ineffective.

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The author of the article was saying that Github was toxic and I personally do not see an issue tracker as a social feature.

Comment threads everywhere (including on commits and lines of code), these comment threads then having emoji reactions, and the inability to disable any of that (same for the pull request feature, which also leads to more comment threads) can get somewhat annoying when a group has decided to target you for arbitrary reasons, and such potential 'needing to see harassment' being deeply embedded in one's code workflow (i.e. in your own repository) can get tedious.

Not everything needs to be turned into an embedded discussion forum.

Yeah, this is largely my objection to GitHub. I feel the design of GH encourages a performative communication style, especially from outsiders with no actual interest in furthering the project.

I also object to how the platform encourages low-effort drive-by participation from bots and the like.

"disallow abusive language"? Do you think chan board users are too stupid to know how to bypass an "abusive language" filter?

> chan board users

You mean "image board user", right?

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