tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:/discussions/problems/24323-prank-gemRubyGems.org: Discussion 2017-01-04T11:03:02Ztag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272016-12-02T10:54:48Z2017-01-01T04:13:40ZPrank Gem<div><p>Hi Cam,</p>
<p>It would be helpful if you include name of the gem you are
talking about :)<br>
Is it <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/node">https://rubygems.org/gems/node</a>?</p></div>sonalkr132tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272016-12-31T07:10:35Z2017-01-01T04:13:40ZPrank Gem<div><p>Please feel free to re-open this conversation if you are still
having issues.</p></div>sonalkr132tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272016-12-31T17:31:32Z2017-01-01T04:13:40ZPrank Gem<div><p>Hi Aditya,</p>
<p>Yes, this "node" gem is still up and should still be removed as
is not<br>
useful to the community. The author's documentation confirms it is
a joke:</p>
<p><em>"This gem is a joke with all this hype with the node.js
project." - Rafael Franca [source <a href="https://github.com/rafaelfranca/node">https://github.com/rafaelfranca/node</a>]</em></p>
<p>The fact that people have downloaded the gem 31k times is
rather<br>
embarrassing. Even if it took just an average of 30 seconds time
to<br>
discover the joke in each of those cases, that's 258+ wasted
hours.</p>
<p>At any rate, happy new year!</p>
<p>Cam</p></div>Cam Crewstag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272017-01-04T04:14:17Z2017-01-04T04:14:17ZPrank Gem<div><p>Hi Cam,</p>
<p>I have added Rafael to conversation. Lets see what he has to say
:)</p></div>sonalkr132tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272017-01-04T04:21:44Z2017-01-04T04:21:44ZPrank Gem<div><p>Hi Aditya,</p>
<p>I'm totally fine to remove the gem from RubyGems.org and I agree
with Cam's point.</p>
<p>Thank you to point it out.</p></div>Rafael Francatag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272017-01-04T04:26:17Z2017-01-04T04:26:17ZPrank Gem<div><p>Hi Rafael,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I'm totally fine to remove the gem from RubyGems.org</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Thank you! Yanking it yourself would be the fastest way to
resolve this. Feel free to do it at your earliest convenience.</p></div>sonalkr132tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272017-01-04T04:29:44Z2017-01-04T04:29:44ZPrank Gem<div><p>Awesome! Just did it.</p>
<p><a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/node">https://rubygems.org/gems/node</a></p>
<p>Thank you again.</p></div>Rafael Francatag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/413715272017-01-04T07:15:22Z2017-01-04T07:15:22ZPrank Gem<div><p>There are many joke gems on RubyGems.org. I don't see the harm
in any of them.</p>
<p>It is not the job of RubyGems staff to decide what is useful to
the community. In the future we shouldn't pressure authors into
removing them by involving them directly in discussion.</p>
<p>We should only remove malicious gems. Other removal requests
should be handled directly by the issue filer and the maintainers
of that gem.</p></div>Eric Hodel