GitHub Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won't Explain Why
404media.co
404media.co
I suspect a lot of people on HN rely on GitHub for work and personal projects, so any changes in its reliability or governance are of-interest. If there's some new accountability-sink [0] process going around banning people, I wouldn't want to be a victim just because (for example) I have some "hacking" code for brute-force decoding an easter-egg message from a game.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine
> does that mean every 404media.co article submission gets killed immediately by software and has to be vouched for before people can vote/comment on it?
Yes.
> Is that the case for every site with a signup wall as a sort of penalty
It depends on whether there are workarounds. Last I checked, 404media.co didn't have those. Your counterexample proves that it does, at least sometimes. Or maybe they changed something?
I'm open to unbanning that site but I'd like to be more sure than I am that this will continue to be the case in the future; and I guess I'd also like to see a few more good (for HN) articles from there before unbanning it. For a long while, all the articles I saw were pretty shallow and fluffy.
That was in 2024 so perhaps it's time for a re-evaluation. I'll shoot him another message.
Not that I can reasily rule out something far more annoying if I were to make more visits without clearing cookies, or with other articles, etc.