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by halapro 29 days ago
We occasionally get traditional SPAM PRs pointing to their product. In that case it is very useful to clear out title, PR body and reset the commits as well, so none of that appears on the repo.

This is time consuming.

Unfortunately the PR and the PR author will forever be listed there and linking to their product anyway.
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TuxSH 27 days ago
> Unfortunately the PR and the PR author will forever be listed there

If they've been doing that to the other repo (and especially if they're just a spam account), there's a good chance using the "report" button and/or contacting GH support directly can yield positive results, up to the spam account being deleted (and the PR is usually deleted).

Unfortunately this doesn't scale.

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halapro 26 days ago
> Unfortunately this doesn't scale

Correct. I used to report them, but 3/4 years ago they made it more difficult to report anything because you have to explain what's wrong even when it's very clear.

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