<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Roger,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">I am aware they these agents are not interested in fixing the problem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">As a high volume participant on Github, I wish to speak with some authority</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">that the actions these agent pursue betray a misunderstanding of git workflow.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">The goal it seems is to project the facebook/youtube comments model onto</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">the github issues model. In addition, their criticism is invalid exactly because</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">one can fork the repo and perform verification themselves. Thus the objection,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">if taking seriously, betrays a misunderstanding of git workflow. If you take the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">time, as I had, to investigate the individuals on this post you will find that some</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">have as many as 93 repos and that they are ALL forked! For Nick, this means</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">that the repos were written by another party.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Further, you say, "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">the conservative troll manifesto:  corruption is inevitable".</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Perhaps then, I should be considered a troll. I very much expect to maintain code,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">to build immunities to malevolent agents and measure the corruption embodied</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">in any social program. This much seems reasonable. I ask about other git-based</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><i>social </i></span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">media</i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">, like bitbucket, exactly because it would be good to know if this is</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">a failing </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">of Microsoft (who purchased Github for 7.5 Billion dollars last year).</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Jonathan Zingale</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div></div>