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GitHub spam is getting out of hand!👎

Programming with Shahan on February 23, 2024

Spam on GitHub now seems to be doping up🐜constantly. But WHY? I know spam isn’t new. Fraud, malware, or 'next-to-spot' content is the challen...
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Ethan

I havnt seen this and I do check GH a few times a day and my email. You can problu make a userscript to make it easer to report this.

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Programming with Shahan

Thanks.. I will try.

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Kudzai Murimi

Will try it, thanks for sharing

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NotFound404

Where is Microsoft's AI? Can't AI identify robots from normal users?
It is a shame for github to use 2FA and still can't prevent spams.
And 2FA caused a lot normal users fail to login!

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Programming with Shahan • Edited

Yeah.. that's true. Microsoft's AI is not intelligent enough to handle that. I found two popular SPAM issues that developers facing on GitHub:

"WHY IS MY ACCOUNT FLAGGED AS SPAM?!"

Image of github spam issue

Here is another one: "You are marked as spam, and therefore cannot authorize a third party application."

screenshot of github discussion about spams

These GitHub discussions offer solutions to FIX them.

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Igor Rubinovich

They are/will be getting better by ai-generating a variety of repos and commits, and the only thing that can be characteristic is account recency, which can also be overcome by advance planning.
There are also at least hundreds if not thousands of bot accounts here on dev.to, some of which link to spam accounts on github.

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Programming with Shahan

I agree. bot accounts are messing up everywhere.

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Vicente G. Reyes

Yup. Got tagged twice about that crypto scam on GitHub

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Programming with Shahan

Report them all 🤦‍♂️

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Nikola Stojaković

Same here. GitHub is the last site I would expect they would use for this purpose.

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Vicente G. Reyes

Exactly, me too!

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Thomas Hansen

The problem is there are way too many "normal" people registered on GitHub. Spam doesn't work on devs, we're too smart, so when there was only devs on GitHub everybody left us alone. Today there's 100 million users on the platform.

Realizing there's only 27 million devs in the world implies 73 million of its users are not devs, resulting in psychopath marketers having embraced it for spam purposes ...

Return it back to devs and no more problem ...

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Programming with Shahan

YOU NAILED IT. It's unlikely that developers would intentionally spam people or fall for spamming tactics. I don't believe it. Of course, "we are too smart" than that. The real issue arises when these interruptions disrupt our workflow.

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Abby Ng

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Abby Ng

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Jon Randy 🎖️

?? How do you get spam on GitHub? I don't get it. I've certainly never had any

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Programming with Shahan

Cool.. You never experienced it. However some people get spam through Pull requests, repositories, or user profiles promoting irrelevant or harmful content. sometimes it gets worse.