Mistakes happen, and I’m a fan of mea-culpa reversion, as long as they undo their mistake quickly. Undoing it in a few hours (at 7am Seattle time, no less) seems fine.

Shaming people (and entities) after they publicly admit a mistake tends to encourage them to dig in their heels and never revert. GitHub has a stranglehold on developer culture; they easily could have kept him banned. But whoever got him unbanned is also a part of GitHub, so they’re worth praising.

I agree it wasn’t ideal though.

Man, can’t believe it’s already been over a year. Yeah, I know it would’ve been a long shot, but he’d know who to raise the issue with. He also cares deeply about developers in general, and especially about setting good examples — he once joked to me “If you were at Microsoft during the YouTube-dl ban, you wouldn’t think I was so nice. You’d be like wow, Nat swears at people.” I would’ve been too!