The maintainer was already temp-banned from GH around 2013 for "creating a script that forced people to watch a library that [he] created", whatever that means: https://youtu.be/varf6oWaFtU?t=202
'Watching' is equivalent to bookmarking a project, to keep informed on any new developments. I'd say it's roughly similar to "a script that forced people to like a tweet that [he] created"