I reported spammers ~5 times to GH, and every time the account went down in a couple of hours. Obviously mileage may vary, but I don't want the whole HN to think this process is completely broken.
replyPlease keep reporting spammers, usually it works.
To confirm: is this email spammers, or spam on GitHub?
replyI've had decent success with on-GitHub action (I'd wager ~80% action taken), but the effort to report email spammers doesn't seem worthwhile.
It's impossible for them to stop if you list your email on there. They could make it harder of course. But if you put your email out there for a human to find, then a script or bot or also find it.
replyAnd yes of course they can also stop a specific spammer. But that spammer may pick up another account and email.
The grandparent post wasn't asking for them to do the impossible and stop all spamming, only to take action against the particular user that spammed them.
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