[hinkley]

I think the problem is that the bot is the wrong solution to the problem.

It's like when I was clearing out my inbox of spam - about 10% of the garbage was legitimate spam, the rest was self-inflicted spam - ads for places I frequent, and mailing lists that I kept thinking I would read 'some day'.

What I needed was a way to group all of the suspicious messages so that I could machine gun my way through them spending less than a couple of seconds each. First hour got a lot of dead messages quickly, slowing down over time and totaling about 4k messages by hour four (most of that spent in front of a TV, which let me finish but also made it take longer - if you ignore the divide by zero error).

What you need is a way to tag suspicious issues so that you can go through and veto the 20 that are legit, and delete the rest. But that may require some feature requests to GitHub, and a different bot.