[karussell]

Not OP but requested this feature since years.

Your suggestion would help a bit but I would prefer the opposite: before someone can 'pollute' my pull request space and draw attention from subscribers I would prefer an acceptance step (just like a moderator on a forum) instead of having to archive the PRs.

This is especially important as (AI) spam increases and just because I am away for a few days or weeks I don't want those PRs lurking around.

[darccio]

A PR staging area. This would be a good step forward.

[bloppe]

That kinda sounds like draft PRs. You can make all PRs drafts by default. I guess it would be cool to have a setting where only maintainers can change it to ready-for-review.

[halapro]

If the PR exists on my repo, it's already too late.

Either you let me block 6-month old accounts from opening PRs, or you let me delete them.

PRs, draft or not, show up in searches and spammers can continue opening new ones as well as leaving comments on them.