The amount of time and energy and cpu cycles wasted on spammers is truly a crime against humanity.<p>I still do not understand how it makes them money, I think it's just an endless chain of people falsely thinking others are successful with it so they try to do it too and the cycle continues.
We're aware of the problem. Just like any service like ours, we see a fair amount of spam repos, issues/comments, and, of course, Gists. We already expend a good bit of energy on handling it as it is, but we're always working on new ways to handle it. :)
This is nothing new. If you watch the [new gist feed][1], for instance, you'll see plenty of it roll by.<p>[1]: <a href="https://gist.github.com/gists" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/gists</a>
I don't understand spammers that target tech sites - especially the ones that add nofollows, techies know spam and don't click the shit. Waste of time, effort and money for the spamlords to be honest
This must have been a problem for some time, considering how popular GitHub is. There is no way around spam when running a popular service where the users can create their own content.
I noticed some spammers a couple of weeks ago, they occasionally create repositories too.<p>I'm not sure if there is a way to report them, there is nothing no the GH contact form.
Looks like git needs the equivalent of a downvote: Something like
% git nuke <a href="https://github.com/quartzjer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/quartzjer</a>