[PaoloBarbolini]

Before this event, I've has another encounter with GitHub. What happened is that an AI coding assistance startup seemed to have created bots that would:

1. find new GitHub issues on random repos

2. fork the repo

3. make a commit, trying to implement whatever was requested in the issue

4. reply to the issue with a link to the commit, indemnifying themselves of the code quality (which was very poor), and linking to their platform

I reported a few of those issues to GitHub. To me, the problem seemed almost obvious:

1. they were using sketchy GitHub usernames

2. there was evidence of similar replies having been mass-deleted in the past

3. some of the issues also seemed to have been opened by sketchy users

GitHub took a few days to reply and didn't seem to understand how bad the situation was, and basically allowed them to continue. I don't expect to have to spend a lot of time writing an elaborate "criminal case" to convince GitHub that they are allowing their platform to be abused by these bots.

[PaoloBarbolini]

I'm also finding that this has happened already in the past and GitHub didn't cleanup the spam entirely, like: https://github.com/Xyntax/1000php/issues/1#issuecomment-2318...