Why Haven’t Trash Users and Junk Repositories Been Taken Down?

[NianBroken]

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GitHub is riddled with repositories full of junk information, alongside others that push anti-national political agendas or outright reactionary content. The README.md files in these trash repositories are stuffed with an overwhelming amount of text and characters—enough to match virtually any keyword I throw into the search bar. Whether I’m looking for “HTML website template” or “Educational Management System,” these junk repositories pop up because their READMEs are bloated with those exact terms.

When I’m trying to find useful resources, these repositories clutter my search results and throw off my focus. They’re incredibly persistent, too—no matter how many times my friends and I report them, they stay up. I can’t tell if GitHub’s team has a soft spot for these garbage repositories and their political rants, or if there’s something else at play, like the users behind them bribing their way into staying online.

Whatever the reason, I firmly believe these repositories don’t belong on GitHub. Yet, the platform seems to do nothing about it.

Here are some of the problem users:

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/
• https://github.com/Ifem2BXvz4N4gh1gGn0bkR3Lp/
• https://github.com/zpc1314521/

And here are some of the junk repositories in question:

• https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
• https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorhsip-7
• https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli
• https://github.com/zpc1314521/PCL2

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