Comment by toomuchtodo
4 years ago
The cost for the negative responses are close to zero while the benefit for positive replies is high. Usual spam/growth hack accounting.
4 years ago
The cost for the negative responses are close to zero while the benefit for positive replies is high. Usual spam/growth hack accounting.
Which means we need to substantially raise the cost for negative responses, to the point that a few negative responses completely outweighs any potential benefit from positive ones.
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
> You may not use the API to download data or Content from GitHub for spamming purposes
Report each instance of spam to GitHub, and hopefully they'll terminate the account.