I just got this rather lengthy and boring spam from someone I have no recollection of ever speaking too Michael <michael.bayer1980@googlemail.com>.By developers! For developers! This is  the motto of a new and innovative  social network and collaboration  platform for developers called  http://www.bettercodes.org. *It=92s  Open Source, free of charge, free of  advertising and non-commercial. *You  receive this invitation because a  member of bettercodes.org nominated  you.bettercodes.org aims to engage  software developers like you to share  ideas and empower them to turn those  ideas into code that works. It does so  by connecting like-minded developers  and enables them to collaborate on  anything related to coding.  bettercodes.org will enable you  to  find relevant information easily using  powerful search and developer-specific  social-networking tools to run and  manage your development projects with  friends from all over the world =96  nearly 8,000 developers already joined  within the last days and weeks. Most  importantly we want to make this fun  for everyone involved.We believe in the power of Open Source  and the developer community.  The  first version of the Source Code is  released. Therefore the  bettercodes.orgproject is also looking  for some contributors who are able to  contribute new features and functions  to our software development  environment like code analysis, code  visualization, automated bug finders,  code review tools, online software  testing, etc. We just launched free  code hosting based on SVN or GIT.The vision of bettercodes.org is to  someday become the best place for the  best developers in the world. So  please do take some time to explore  http://www.bettercodes.org.You can use OAuth to sign-in with  different credentials like Facebook,  Twitter, Odloh, Google, LinkedIn, Open  ID, Yahoo, etc=85Kind Regards,MichaelUpon checking out the site, and trying to sign up with my Google account I noticed that they were apparently requesting more than just auth from Google:The bettercodes.org application on  your computer is requesting access to  your Google Account for the product(s)  listed below. Google ContactsIf you grant access, you can revoke  access at any time under 'My Account'.  The bettercodes.org application will  not have access to your password or  any other personal information from  your Google Account. Learn more The application that directed you  here claims to be bettercodes.org.  We are unable to verify this claim as  the application runs on your computer,  as opposed to a website. We recommend  you deny access unless you trust the  application.Getting an email from a guy I've never heard of, about a site I've never heard of, requesting permissions I've never granted seems like one too many red flags. Has anyone used bettercodes.org? Does the site have any value? It seems as if some people are reporting that the site is getting email addresses via a github.com bug. I assume the intent here is to get access to my contact list so they can be spammed too?
What is bettercodes.org and is it trustworthy? Will they spam my contacts if I log in with Google?
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