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ricardobeat on March 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account?

Remember when Zed Shaw took down GitHub for purely personal reasons, disturbing service for millions? I don't remember him getting suspended, his account is live and well at http://github.com/zedshaw

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html

ceol on March 5, 2012 [–]

Did Zed do that on purpose, though? He was continuously added to a troll repo with no way to block the guy, so he spammed his repo with commits and fake branch merges, but I don't think he crashed GitHub on purpose.

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