[rgrove]

I did consider this, and several people have offered to take over, but ultimately I feel that the thing that was most useful about RawGit — it made serving HTML at scale dead simple for anyone with a GitHub repo — is also the thing that made it most prone to abuse.

It came down to a simple equation: fighting abuse on RawGit will _always_ take more time and effort than spreading abuse via RawGit. One persistent jerk working a few hours a day could do so much damage so quickly that mitigating it would require multiple people working full time.

There's just no good way to scale that and retain the functionality that actually made RawGit useful.

I talked about this a little more here: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/pull/191#issuecomment-42831...

[ilaksh]

Look at how enthusiastic people are about moderating forums. Would it not be possible for someone to add a web application where volunteers could go to manage blacklists or something? Like prescreened volunteers.

[wild_preference]

It’s not free. You will have to now spend time managing people.

[shawn]

It's a bad idea to shut down a service that hundreds of thousands of people find useful due to theoretical reasons.

People have volunteered to maintain the service. Why not let them?