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What is the claim? In the UK at least SCC requires that your claiming for some kind of (small) financial harm. What's that here?

Even if that's not the case in the USA (small civil claims against un-pursued crime?) it's still not clear to me what the issue is, or what 'right' they've violated. The judicial system isn't there for 'how displeased you are'.

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Maybe I have my github account printed on business cards or even plastered on my car as advertising for my consulting practice. Or its embedded on marketing pages for consulting support for my open source project that now I need to pay a dev or dedicate time to update.

Or any other scenario where o have customers and potential customers that discover or interact with me at least partly through my github account.

This is the main issue I wanted to bring the conversation towards. instead I got flamed for making it seem like I am a "sue-aholic." Some people use their Github for business use and allowing Github to change a username without notice is bad blood. On top of that Github has no mention of telling its user base of changing usernames with or without notice. There is almost no mention that they can do whatever they like on their platform with your personal account details. If Github ever does end up changing someone's username and that person was doing what you said. Github would be in deeper trouble than what OP does have.

Obviously OP understands the company's decision for changing his username but he was allowed to have it in the beginning. It is odd to backtrack and force a name change without notice. Github should update their policy with new reasonings for allowing themselves the ability to change your username(or account details) without notice. Afterall If Github can change my username(or account details), I would like that to be communicated to me.

But that does actually need to have been the case, you can't just contrive a hypothetical financial loss.

> requires that your claiming for some kind of (small) financial harm.

There may be very small differences, but I believe it is also exactly the same in USA.

Judge Judy is not going to give you a dime just because GitHub changed your username. You might still get on the TV show though but only so that she can yell at you publicly for wasting everyone's time.

In a more illustrative example, twitter.com/x was up until a few days ago, a protected account owned by someone? and now it is Twitter... X's handle.

I bet he wasn't paid a dime either.

Be careful, Devon. https://github.com/x

that is what the previous owner of the twitter x handle said. No compensation or warning. However, Twitter(or X) was exercising their trademark policy. Github just changed OP's username without any warning or breach of any policy.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takes-over...

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