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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by movermeyer on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:44PM (#16547477)
The actual rule is no "excessive automated bulk activity".

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/

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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by d0lph on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:54PM (#16547548)
That being the case, seems like OP's bot probably should have been allowed, especially since it seemed like they were only automating their repos.
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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by movermeyer on Friday March 09, 2018 @06:24AM (#16551059)
This bot was exclusively applied to repos that were not mine.
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