It probably was never a top priority feature ... until now.
But they should definitely respond, with an apology, regardless if they all personally hate Zed and would love nothing more than see him get hit by a bus.
Zed throws hissy fits about shit like this, and attracts trolls, because, trolls love public hissy fits. But at the same time Zed writes awesome code and is well known in the open source community.
I am not saying whether we should personally like him or not, but Github getting into a spat with him over this in public can only result in their PR failure.
I don't want an apology, I want them to add a feature that prevents people from abusing others. If throwing a "hissy fit" gets it done then rock on. If not then I'll go somewhere else.
That's what's great about a meritocracy in a free market.
But they should definitely respond, with an apology, regardless if they all personally hate Zed and would love nothing more than see him get hit by a bus.
Zed throws hissy fits about shit like this, and attracts trolls, because, trolls love public hissy fits. But at the same time Zed writes awesome code and is well known in the open source community.
I am not saying whether we should personally like him or not, but Github getting into a spat with him over this in public can only result in their PR failure.