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by cturhan 1478 days ago
That’s not the kiddo’s fault. GitHub should have a feature when you tag a group, it should show how many people will be notified and ask for confirmation.

Anyone will be afraid if they see a warning like “This message will notify 400k people. Are you sure?”

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Why would GitHub let a random person notify 400k people? Maybe I'm not fully understanding this. I've never really looked into limits around @'ing people. Could I just open a random PR and @EpicGames/developers to notify 400k people just to annoy them? Why doesn't this happen non-stop?