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I read half of the article and it hasn't answered this question: what happened?

I mean, I get that people received unexpected notifications and hate speech. But how? Did an admin send them? Did a bot go on all the projects? Can't we summarise that in 2 lines before going into a whole article about how to prevent "it"?

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Someone created an issue in their repo and @ mentioned hundreds of people with two word ragebait message. It is just a feature that sometimes very useful that was used for spam. Nothing new, really.

You might've heard about someone accidentally sending email to thousands of people on Github a couple years ago: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24

Sorry, that is explained in the linked article from Codeberg, but I just added this sentence in the beginning as well: "Attackers hijacked the commenting system to mention other users and use the email notifications to include hate speech."

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