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by bdn_ 1480 days ago
I am @3x and I get ~10 notifications a day of people mentioning me in PRs and issues. Whenever anyone writes the name of a file containing `@3x`, which is commonly used for hi-res assets, I get a notification. I quickly learned to turn off email notifications!
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I had to turn off my paypal.me because I naively picked a number for a username and people kept putting that number in the send-to-username field and sent me free money, which they always tried to refund later, getting me stuck dealing with PayPal's customer service through no fault of mine. I would explain to them that I didn't ask for the money, I do not want to keep the money, and I am not accusing the sender of scamming. Sometimes I was able to refund instantly but depending on the sender and payment method, PayPal had to get involved for weeks of back and forth.
Just goes to show that you should always quote code with backticks.