jc4p, you're totally on topic. The issue here is very similar to recruiter sites. Gitpay is doing essentially the same thing where they are scraping data and creating in-active accounts.
This is sometimes annoying, in the case of recruiters. However sometimes it can be useful if the product has potential.
Gitpay possibly originated from a good idea.
Regardless however, they should launched with an opt-out feature. Many such website that scrape content and create accounts _for_ people have an automatic opt-out feature.
You do open a really good question though if this should be allowed in the first place.
Say if I deleted my github account.. by deleting my account, it doesn't get deleted off of this website.
This is sometimes annoying, in the case of recruiters. However sometimes it can be useful if the product has potential.
Gitpay possibly originated from a good idea.
Regardless however, they should launched with an opt-out feature. Many such website that scrape content and create accounts _for_ people have an automatic opt-out feature.
You do open a really good question though if this should be allowed in the first place.
Say if I deleted my github account.. by deleting my account, it doesn't get deleted off of this website.
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