Network & IT · Products · 2026-09-09 11:01:00
A GitHub community feature request notes that blocking users via the REST API, unlike the UI, allows no duration or other options. In the age of AI, floods of sloppy pull requests overwhelm resource-constrained open source maintainers and CI, consuming quotas and paid AI services. Many projects have closed public contributions or migrated platforms. The requester keeps contributions open while auto-detecting and flagging spam, but some users persist. He argues the only real solution is a temporary one-to-seven-day block as a cool-down, with a notification on how to contribute properly, and asks GitHub to add the UI's blocking options to the REST API.
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