anon_throwaway

I have reason to believe, aside from Zed's post, that at least one GitHub employee was involved in the harassment. I could be wrong, but my beliefs aren't based on nothing. The startup world is very small.

Thank you for the reminder that HN is now reddit.

P.S. Nobody's mind was ever changed by a sentence that begins 'you're an idiot'.

Most of the malice comes from a YC startup who is playing in a space where customer trust is essential.

Here's to hoping they beat on their front-end guy and whoever else thinks this shit is funny before their employee makes it trivial for established competitors to destroy their professional credibility.

Github lost me as a prospective customer (and I currently pay for multi-user accounts at both BeanStalk and Kiln).

They had an unhappy customer, and their staff felt the best way to handle it was to mock the customer publicly. That's juvenile bullshit, no matter what you think of the customer.