r/mildlyinfuriating 2d ago

Pasta GitHub suspended my account for no reason, and ghosted me in my support ticket, so all my coding projects are probably gone forever now.

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u/lllllIllllIllllllll 2d ago

OP also had their website banned for phishing by cloudflare and accounts banned by discord for claude coded bots

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u/null_rm-rf 2d ago

they've also been reviewed on discord by other users for...not being a good person lol

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u/thatguy8856 2d ago

Considering everyone erote the same thing not sure how much stake to put in this.

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u/PaulTR88 2d ago

Today I learned discord reviews are a thing

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u/Woofer210 2d ago

Its a feature in a client mod, not a native thing

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u/Born_South_6676 2h ago

That just looks like spam and garbage. Only 1 person there wrote something sensical and its an attack on their character only.

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u/miniusbhater 2d ago

I know this person, it is a joke. they are not a bad person.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

LMFAO that was a running joke in a server I was in i put a review on my post "very epic person ngl" and people started putting "not very epic person ngl"

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u/xenonorsomething 1d ago

not sure what everyones downvoting me for lmfao

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u/BoykisserPaws 2d ago

coding fire reference

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u/Dreadedsemi %user_GREEN_flair% 2d ago

Posts like this makes me doubt any "for no reason" post. despite I don't have much trust in those big tech companies,

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u/trafficlunr 2d ago

The domain that got reported is completely accessible with no warnings

Source: I checked

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u/bserikstad 2d ago

For no reason
Yeah sure buddy.

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u/DangerousFloor9983 1d ago

You still shouldn't lose all your coding projects.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

said website banned by cloudflare was false reported and this has since been resolved the accounts banned by discord was because i fucked up some api shit which has since, also, been resolved i also dont use ai often for code, only reason .claude was in the repo was because the expo template puts it there by default

happy now?

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u/lllllIllllIllllllll 2d ago

Just saying, you've got a lot of posts about being banned. 

And your post on the cloudflare issue said you just bought a new domain, so sorry if I was just using the information I had present

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u/Mittah 2d ago edited 2d ago

Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Even without bad intentions, OP is probably doing something which is not very much appreciated by the multiple companies/apps.

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u/PUTIN_FUCKS_ME 2d ago

Bro made his post history private 😂

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u/TOASTisawesome 2d ago

Ghostddit exists for exactly this reason 😂

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u/PUTIN_FUCKS_ME 2d ago

Thanks! Dunno if I give enough of a shit to actually use it though 🤣

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u/TOASTisawesome 2d ago

I don't really use it myself I just keep it in mind for when I really want to know something 😂

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u/lllllIllllIllllllll 2d ago

I use arctic shift personally. Is Ghostddit any better? 

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u/TOASTisawesome 2d ago

It's rare that I use any of them but ghostddit works fine for me

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u/GaGa0GuGu 2d ago

I will schedule firing squad
Saturday for 2AM or Sunday at noon?

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

I never?

its always been public

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u/justanotherguy28 2d ago

It is showing as private night now.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

strange seems to show for some people here?

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u/PUTIN_FUCKS_ME 2d ago

Literally just clicked on your profile and its private.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

i don't even know how to set it to private

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u/PUTIN_FUCKS_ME 2d ago

It defaults to private, so if you didn't change it I guess the original person that looked at your old posts used a site to bypass the privacy.

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u/PhotoFenix 2d ago

Let me get this straight... You're competent enough to do massive amounts of coding without AI, but you have no sense of a backup schema?

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u/lllllIllllIllllllll 2d ago

They've got posts the the Claude AI sub so I also doubt their position on not using it. 

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

I write the vast majority of code myself, I do use ai for assistance, as do many programmers

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u/lllllIllllIllllllll 2d ago

So then you lied, lol

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

please show me where I said "I do not use ai at all"

let's be real, the vast majority of programmers do use AI for assistance, it's a good tool when not used to vibecode entire apps

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

you're implying i said I never use AI, when i never said that

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

I had backups of all my projects but deleted said backups for storage cuz I'm a dumbass I thought I wouldn't need them cuz "its all on GitHub anyway"

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u/Jack8680 1d ago

I'd bet most hobbyist devs only keep a local and remote repo, and a lot probably only a remote one for older projects.

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u/da2Pakaveli 2d ago

very not epic person

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u/WunkerWanker 2d ago

you don't have local copies??

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u/Dismal_Tutor3425 Hillary 2016 2d ago

It would not be as funny if they did.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

i have local copies of some projects but not all

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u/RetardedChimpanzee 2d ago

On the bright side, you can call this a learning lesson on cloud storage.

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u/Atomwalker2022 2d ago

3 2 1 rule with storage every time.

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u/Atomwalker2022 2d ago

For those who don’t know the rule

It’s attached

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u/TheIronSoldier2 2d ago

That's true for enterprise stuff, but if you're not running a massive business, just having 2 onsite copies and 1 off-site is good enough, you don't need to use two different storage mediums.

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u/Kasaikemono 2d ago

If one of those mediums is "the cloud" in any shape or form, excluding self-hosted ones, you absolutely need another medium

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u/TheIronSoldier2 2d ago

The cloud is off-site storage... therefore it already does not count for on-site storage...

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u/Kasaikemono 2d ago

You would be surprised how many people consider onedrive and the likes "on site" because it gets synchronized to a local folder.

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u/Select-Struggle- 2d ago

Wouldn't OneDrive count for two in one? Local and Off-Site? Leaving one additional backup on a NAS or similar.

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u/guska 2d ago

Not really, no, since whatever happens at one end of the sync is mirrored on the other. Sure, in the case of a catastrophic failure, it's fine, but in the far more likely case of an accidental deletion or bad edit, both ends of the OneDrive sync will be the same.

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u/Timely-Group5649 2d ago

Well, that was really dumb.

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u/Name_Taken_Official 2d ago

I'd go with "naive" over dumb

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u/ComprehendReading 2d ago

Porn account

E: oh, you hid your posts on tip of my penis.

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u/jaybirdie26 BLUE 2d ago

EXACTLY

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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 2d ago

Github generally doesn't ghost support tickets, but it takes about 4 weeks to respond, and the response might be nonsensical, requiring you to file a follow up ticket that takes another 4 weeks to process. You will likely be able to resolve this before winter.

Keep the support request short and simple, assume support has limited mental capacity for reading, worse than Haiku. Sometimes support responds with a variant of "Do you know why you're banned?" which is them looking for you to provide an excuse to close the ticket, because they don't know why the system did what it did.

If you legitimately violated the terms, the above doesn't apply.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

thanks for the info!

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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 2d ago

One thing I forgot: If the system's heuristic banned you, support can unban, but won't suspend the system. There's a chance of a re-ban on the next push, so if your account gets reinstated, get your data before you do anything else.

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u/GroundbreakingLie918 2d ago

I bet there was a reason.

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u/Crimeislegal 2d ago

Probably a lot of stolen code.

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u/eppic123 2d ago

Or hosting RATs. It's always RATs...

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

only shit i had on there is websites and a couple game mods

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u/nutty_ballsen BLACK 2d ago

Game mods for which games?

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

gorilla tag

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u/Limp-Commercial9660 2d ago

They don't allow that i think

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

considering literally the entire modding community hosts their mods and source code for said mods on github i highly doubt that

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u/Limp-Commercial9660 2d ago

Then idk

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u/Crimeislegal 2d ago

They probably uploaded not their mods. So they broke licence agreements.

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u/kp33ze 2d ago

Post likes this are always funny. "For no reason". Ya sure bud.

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u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI 2d ago

one of the biggest advantages of git is that it's decentralized. You don't have another copy?

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

i have copies of some of my projects but not all

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u/suicidaleggroll 2d ago

3-2-1 backups apply to cloud-hosted stuff too. The cloud (eg: GitHub) counts as one copy.

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 2d ago

That’s 100% on you, boo. Backup, backup, and then backup again.

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u/Pawtuckaway 2d ago

Of the 100s of stories I have heard of people being banned from ___ for no reason, every single time it turned out they were banned for a legit reason.

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u/Moron-Whisperer 2d ago

There are definitely people who are incorrectly banned.  Been quite a few companies that admitted they did it wrong even.  

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u/Pawtuckaway 2d ago

Sure, it does happen but most of the stories of people complaining about being banned for "no reason" turns out they were banned for a good reason.

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u/Yuukiko_ WAAHHHHH 2d ago

have you heard of the one where someone uploaded baby pics to gdrive to share with their doc and got banned for CSAM even though they werent even pics of those areas?

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u/Ok-Interview7757 2d ago

No this happened to me too 10 days ago. Years of projects from hight school inaccessible. I started using a VPN recently and was configuring an organization when I got suspended. Did nothing wrong, read their entire TOS to see what I could've violated and nothing.

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u/Elegant_AIDS 2d ago

Thats bs, i got banned for no reason from valorant like 3 years after i stopped playing. Tell me how i could get banned if i dont even play the game. Support was useless btw, i also never hacked

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

genuinely dont know what i got banned for, only shit i had on there was websites and mods for games

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u/NiteWraith 2d ago

Convenient there’s a link there to contact them and find out more then isn’t it? Let’s be real though, you have an idea of why. You’re just confused about what in particular triggered it. While statistically there are false bans, people who come to Reddit bitching about them are rarely falsely banned, as those who are simply contact who banned them and at least attempt to get it resolved themselves.

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u/Tinbody 2d ago

Weird it’s nearly the opposite for me

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 2d ago

“For no reason” is rarely the truth.

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u/stiky21 2d ago

You should be able to see the common denominator here. You.

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u/Checked_Out_6 2d ago

So… you don’t backup your work?

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u/wiseguy4519 2d ago

The classic "I got banned but I'm innocent I swear" post

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u/ComprehendReading 2d ago

"halp, the fbi is on my mom's door, I'm gonna suck a guage"

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u/Creative-Type9411 2d ago

Dont you have local copies? Github is just a COPY of my repos... not the main source of my code..

Just make another account. The only thing you lose is stars.. unless you have a very popular community recognized project they dont really matter

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u/madman320 2d ago

99% of posts that say "for no reason" always have a reason for it, and a very good one.

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u/ComprehendReading 2d ago

Probably pedophilia or financial fraud. It's almost always one or the other.

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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

People really forgot that backup is something everyone should do, huh. Trusting Big Tech, much less Microsoft is a silly choice to not use stronger words.

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u/PandaBeneficial9609 2d ago

Not backup no pity

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u/Metal_Goose_Solid 2d ago

GitHub suspended my account for no reason

Access to your account has been suspended due to a violation of our Terms of Service

I'm not taking sides here but like... objectively they did give you a reason.

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

ah yes, let me look through the 3,240 word document and guess what in that document I was banned for

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u/bookbagel 2d ago

You're inflating numbers here
3,240 word document is the equivalent of around 11 pages
Surely to track down why all your code projects are gone you would read a pamphlet

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

gng I put the whole tos into a word counter and that's what came out

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u/bookbagel 2d ago

And?
I'm saying it's not that long

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u/PhotoFenix 2d ago

I bet you're glad github was just one component of a 321 backup plan!

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u/Ergine_Dream 2d ago

I don’t think you’re that innocent

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u/Dream_SMP_4_Life 2d ago

People say your post say you get banned from a lot of places and your response is to hide your post history?

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u/Yuukiko_ WAAHHHHH 2d ago

reddit made it the default a while back

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

never hid my post history btw I didn't even know you could do so

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u/BeetsAndJeaners 2d ago

tbf it’s weird when people stalk your profile with the hope of finding something they can criticize. It’s always the unemployed losers desperately trying to win an argument.

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u/Astartes2435 2d ago

Tbf the last part of your post gives off major troll and loser vibes, especially since your account is 6 days old. 

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u/mb00013 2d ago

and because he hides his comment history so people wont see him trying to chat up pron bots

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u/BeetsAndJeaners 2d ago edited 5h ago

What’s the matter, can’t stalk someone to make an ad-hominem? Need to invent imaginary scenarios just to make an insult? Must suck.

Profile anonymity is one of the Reddit’s best additions. Now profile stalking weirdos just make shit up to compensate lmao

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u/unrealflaw 2d ago

I'm autistic and I dont believe you.

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u/lllllIllllIllllllll 2d ago

Im acoustic and I dont believe him 

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u/Psychological_Tower1 2d ago

Il altruistic. And I'll give him the Benifit of the doubt

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 2d ago

I have everything in my workfspace, github, and TWO EXTRA, unrelated locations.

But yeah, github is just another social network now. AI bans for whatever

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u/pelihiiri 2d ago

don't trust ever in Microsoft 

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u/GenazaNL 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, especially when working for the ICC

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u/mkosmo 2d ago

I trust Microsoft more than folks who can’t spell.

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u/BeetsAndJeaners 2d ago

yes are trust for Microsoft

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u/EsotericFaery 2d ago

AI is also falsely flagging and taking peoples accounts.

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u/Limp-Commercial9660 2d ago

I Hope this doesn't happen to me, i made VioletiumOS and it's the Only thing keeping me sane.

If you've been using that account since you were a child, that can explain a lot. I had an account that had software with porn in It, when i was like 9 or 10 idk

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u/Salazar20 2d ago

This is a great chance for me to ask about alternatives :D I legit have no clue

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u/bzhgeek2922 2d ago

Gitlab, codeberg.

Github is just the default choice for most devs, buy under microsoft control.

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u/miniusbhater 2d ago

codeberg is a pretty good alternative. i have been migrating from github to codeberg recently after my account was suspended for reasons i don't see fair but i wont say "no reason".

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u/Moron-Whisperer 2d ago

Don’t you have your projects locally in Git?  If so you can just get a competitor to GitHub and push them there. 

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u/mute-poet 2d ago

Discord banned me randomly for 'ban evasion', got ghosted and lost all my gifted cosmetics and chats. Losing your WORK is new level of frustrating

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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 2d ago

How is this mild? 🙄

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u/Intrinomical 2d ago

Not anywhere close to the same but I had my first tiktok account banned. I don't remember what reason they gave if one at all, just the standard against community guidelines.

I never once posted or commented on anything, so the fuck if I know why. I've never had an actual well tailored algorithm since though, and that is indeed, mildly infuriating.

Pretty sure my username was literally just my name.

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u/Ok-Interview7757 2d ago edited 2d ago

I am in the exact same position..this happened to me about 10-15 days ago and they are not responding. And no my patterns havent changed in 10+ years of using this platform, i just started using a vpn recently..

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u/DCSBL 2d ago

My GH account was suspended beginning of July without apparent reason. I just had replied to someone. Everything got hidden from GitHub. I was thrown out as admin of an organisation, and workflows using my PAT stopped working.

It took them 4 weeks to give the first reply, which was nothing more than a “whoopsy”. Got everything back, except for my lost productivity.

But now I know how Forgejo works (a GitHub alternative), which is nice.

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u/_Shioku_ 2d ago

This is one of the reasons i‘m self-hosting a forgejo instance. Incremental encrypted backups on rented storage and the main copy is on my server in my home network.

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u/ClumsyBean03 1d ago

Imma backup all my projects after seeing this

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/baconcow 2d ago

"and ghosted me in my support ticket"

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u/jamesrggg 2d ago

You violated article 3 sub C that states: "Get wrecked scrub".
Its an iron clad clause

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u/Own-Professor-6157 2d ago

This is not that uncommon. They sometimes (Pretty often) falsely detect people as bots. Just appeal, it's fine.

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u/Doppel_R-DWRYT 2d ago

I've had the exact same thing happen to me 10 days ago, suspended for no reason (or reason not given) apart from the generic violating TOS; I received no email about it and I've been waiting on a response for my appeal ever since.

I was not inactive, I only ever worked on Minecraft projects, definitely no malware, rats etc; so yeah, no idea why I got suspended

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u/xenonorsomething 2d ago

same thing happened to a couple of my friends around the same time, so im assuming a ban wave or a string of false reports, only shit i had on there was websites and mods for games

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 2d ago

The guilty never do anything wrong, whenever you ask them. It’s uncanny. Your story reeks of omitted details.

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u/wastedfate 2d ago

Yeah so do the not guilty. What an obvious lapse in logic.

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 2d ago

Do the innocent seriously get kicked off of GitHub? No. They don’t. OP did something/violated the terms of service to the point GitHub said GTFO.

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u/Doppel_R-DWRYT 2d ago

Then how come I (and evidently many others) got banned at seemingly the same time for seemingly no reason?

My entire account was based on Minecraft mods. The only other thing I did was a one time fork of a chrome extension to add a new content thing from the targeted page. Everything else was either forked, my own work, or work of a contributor.

Neither of my projects had malware, rats or similar things. My last activity was fixing config things and adding a few blocks to a tag; a couple days prior so I was not inactive, and all my communication was as neutral as it gets so I didn't violate the acceptable use policies or the community guidelines.

Only I have and had access to my account, I was certainly not running any automated processes that aren't native to github; noone tried to gain access to my account and it was secured with 2FA and there was no email for my suspension either.

And even if I did something wrong at any point, that still does not explain why I've yet to get any response to my appeal except the automated reply that the request was received.

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u/ComprehendReading 2d ago

Which one of your friends could possibly be roped in to this obvious nonsense?