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Can you post more on this? I found this article that seems to recommend you only use one account, but doesn't seem to suggest that they enforce it. I have like 8 GitHub accounts with a cringe/professional mix, so hopefully that's not something I need to fix. (Ironically I usually stay logged out anyway)
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements
Here, I'm afraid. Third bullet. Whether or not they enforce it is another matter.
Sucks because I kinda might want to contribute some things to projects that I don't want people to know professionally.
Or maybe I can just make my profile private and hope nobody goes looking too hard.
They...have an "add account" feature right in their UI though. They are obviously okay with multiple accounts. Perhaps it is an abuse thing like if they notice you sock puppeting or something.
That's for if you have a personal account and one provided by your company.
Ruh roh. Yeah I'm involved with several projects that I'd rather not trace back to my other identities, and I make a new GitHub account per job. Even if they start enforcing it I imagine it's quite hard for them to actually figure out what's all connected without amping up their identification schemes with mandatory phone numbers and etc. I guess we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
Oh, they do.
I didn't clear my cookies/use a vpn to sign up for multiple accounts.
All registered accounts, including my main one, were locked. All secondary ones were shadowbanned. I had to message support to get restrictions on my main removed.
Did they actually unlock your account?
All the horror stories I've read about this sort of thing usually end in "I tried to contact support/submit an appeal but they told me to take a hike".
Yes, they unlocked one of them.
I’m not sure where they have their information from, I have 2 very unique, personal accounts on github and i’ve had zero issues.
first is my public “portfolio” page and occasional professional/corporate client connected account, it is very much an account that you would “know” my info, linkedin, keybase, etc identifiers. Then i have a personal one that I use to contribute more anonymously, which I use to further opensource projects that my clients wouldn’t want me contributing to due to conflict of interest. I’m not talking espionage levels, just modified supportive code that i have contributed to an enterprise that doesn’t support opensource initiatives (aka, they’d pay a fine if it ever came public).
They just replied with this link, which has it listed as the third bullet. I suspect they don't actually care enough to do anything, but I had no idea that it was in their ToS.
ha, good info. I wouldn’t meet that violation because my main public account is a pro account. But, you’re not alone in multiple accounts and I assume unless you’re violating other TOS, you’ll be fine.
Giving them money is likely the reason you still have your accounts.
Log into another free account on your machine and see what happens.