Sorry you don’t like this, I didn’t mean to offend anyone with this. It was meant to put a little smile on some peoples face.
I didn’t edit the title of the post, it was done by an admin (I can’t edit it myself and wouldn’t have done so).
Regarding hex, the package remains functional - it’s not anymore a wasteland than people who build something and push it up for fun and then abandon it.
That’s something we shouldn’t encourage people to do though and when respected members of the community start to do it, it signals to other people that it’s acceptable.
Just something to keep in mind.
Ninja Edit: You’re right though. There is a lot of abandoned packages and placeholders. It’s something we should actively work to fight against. I’m the first to comment on posts of threads in which people advocate parking names or pushing up empty/useless packages.
I fell for it as well and changed the title of the thread to reflect the ‘new’ name 
have reverted the changes.
It would be good to free-up the Hex name in case someone has a use for it.
In a time, long, long ago (maybe 1-2 years now?) I believe Eric actually went through Hex and booted off empty and abandoned packages. I’m not sure it’s actively enforced.
But it’s a real problem. I came across a blog post last week that was just the author encouraging people to push up Hex packages with hello world in them. 
Wow hat sounds bad 
I just checked and there’s no way in the API that let’s you delete a package. You can only “retire” package versions that shouldn’t be used anymore. But they’re still available.
I mean, I guess it’s good to avoid a “left_pad”-situation… but maybe if a package has all its versions retired and they have 0 “recent” downloads" maybe then a package can be fully retired and the namespace reclaimed?
edit: Also thanks @AstonJ and sorry - I really didn’t wanna full anyone
I didn’t want to be the first to say it, but I agree. Claiming a name on hex is bad. You should have been sure that it could be reversed before publishing it.
Regarding the prank, you should never assume people will see through a prank on the internet, especially when such people might come from a completely different culture or have a poor grasp of the language you’ve written in (I’m not saying any of these was at play here, this is just a general admonition).
In my opinion (and this is a very subjective topic), a new forum tolic would have been acceptable, as would have been a new github repo, but claiming a hex package name is in really bad taste. Changing the title of the topic was also kinda bad, but I can see it wasn’t your fault.
These kinds of pranks only work well in a broadband communication channel (like communication in real life) in a relatively homogeneous community. Communication through text with strangers on he internet is as far from the above as you can get…
No problem about the title Toby - I was in ‘auto’ mode so didn’t really pay any more attention than I felt I had to.
I wonder if it’s is worth bringing the wider issue - of unused or ‘throwaway’ uses of Hex - to the attention of @ericmj - Eric, we can split this into a dedicated thread or start a new one if you think it’s worth discussing further?
Parking names or package squatting is against the code of conduct so if you notice it please let us know at support@hex.pm. The bunny package does not break this rule since it has functionality.
Unused or abandoned packages will always stay on hex.pm because there is no way of knowing if they are in fact unused in reality. We have never gone through and deleted unused packages, but we may delete packages with no functionality or with only “hello word” because they are against the squatting policy.
You can take over the name of an abandoned package but all old versions will remain and can only publish new versions.
