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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by tommica on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:03AM (#48190180)
I'd imagine this is not a simple problem to solve, and legacy code is probably causing a massive headache too
Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by halapro on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:34AM (#48190745)
They do have ways to limit interactions already, but they work on a whitelist level rather than dynamically based on user "score" (account age, contribution history, etc). If a user gets their comments deleted and blocked from organizations, GitHub should already know it's a spammer.