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Comment by kstenerud | Hacker News Reader

I would disagree. If I happened to be in the job market, and my potential employer were to look at my github profile (yes, we do look at your github profile) and find "bigdicksucker" as one of the repos I'm apparently a "contributor" on, well, that wouldn't look too good, would it?

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As it stands, when you are added as a collaborator to a project it shows up in exactly one place — your private, logged in dashboard. It doesn't show up publicly anywhere.

You must make a contribution to a project before you show up in any kind of public fashion.

I got "dong markup" in my RSS reader from pull requests to zedshaw/mongrel2 today. So, the trolling was very much in public view.

As Zed mentions in the article, he contributed to the project, which is why it showed up in your RSS feed.

Actually, the RSS feed was for zedshaw/mongrel2. It showed up because these trolls were spamming pull requests to a legitimate project.

Wouldn't it be possible for the troll to temporarily set his username to the same as yours in his git config, make a few commits, and then push them, thereby making it look like you had made a contribution to the project? Would this make your "membership" in the project appear publicly?

Or does Github track pushes by the pusher's Github username?

I think it tracks everything with the public key that you use to push to github. The username will look the same, but will not be linked to your account.

I'd agree, but it's not shown on your public profile, only in your dashboard when you login.

Sounds like a discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation lawsuit!

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