Practicing User Safety at GitHub

GitHub explains a few of their guidelines for harassment and abuse prevention when they’re developing new features. Some of the interesting points in the article include a list of privacy-oriented questions to ask yourself when developing a new feature, providing useful audit logs for retrospectives, and minimizing abuse from newly created accounts by restricting access to the service’s capabilities. All of these points taken into consideration make it harder for abuse to occur, making the service a better environment for its users.

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Jon Simpson

I'm a software engineering professional interested in Continuous Delivery, Lean, hipster programming languages, and distributed computing. In my spare time I enjoy reading books, tasting craft beers, and exploring Canada's capital. I have a Bachelors of Computer Science with a specialization in Network Computing from Carleton University, Ottawa.

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