[femto113]

Deliberately trying to create an extreme situation in order to find when/where/how a service breaks is inarguably "abuse" regardless of whether the intent was malign.

[eyelidlessness]

I addressed this in another downthread reply. Briefly, I agree. My quibble isn’t with the term “abuse”, only the nature of its intent.

[akerl_]

The intent doesn't seem particularly relevant.

[eyelidlessness]

Sure it does. Why would we even be discussing “GitHub predictably enforced rules in response to actions with no conceivable merit”?