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Wow, that is absurd. Did you ever follow up with the employee who sent you a note? What did flagging entail? I.e., were you not able to use the repo?



Yes. She indicated that it doesn't matter how the word is used, some will see it as aggressive.

As she appeared to be a non-technical person mysteriously employed by GitHub as some consolation to some organization (IIRC it was called the "Ada Initiative") I realized that github is no longer a technology company. It's a Social Justice company. Good luck to them--I don't even disagree with the basic premise--but I like my git repo companies to be worried about git.


Some of the commenters here assumed that the message was automated, you're making it abundantly clear thats was not the case. In fact she defended her position. Did you try to escalate it? This is absurd.




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