Cassidy Williams 12/1/2024

Fighting open source spam with interaction limits

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This technical blog post explains how open source maintainers can combat spam in their GitHub repositories by using built-in moderation tools. It details how to set account-wide or repository-specific interaction limits, which can temporarily restrict new users from creating issues, making pull requests, or commenting, providing a crucial cooldown period against spam attacks.

Fighting open source spam with interaction limits

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