4.1 Acceptable Use Policies - Disrupting the Experience of Other Users
Updated 17 October 2025
This document outlines acceptable behavior for users within an online community, specifically focusing on actions that disrupt the experience of others. It details various types of disruptive conduct, such as posting off-topic comments or creating meaningless issues, and notes that platform staff may take action against such behaviors. The template is designed to be adapted for different communities and purposes, with a strong reference to GitHub's policies.
Disrupting the Experience of Other Users
This document is taken from the GitHub website - more information about GitHub and its functions can be found at https://github.com/. Please note that many of the included provisions are designed for GitHub or similar site (such as for building and developing software with online communities), so they are not relevant to all types of business.
You can amend this document to be suitable for your own Community and purposes using the smart fields and customizing the bracketed sections. We recommend adding hyperlinks to your own policies and website pages - make sure your business has in place all the policies referred to here.
Please find the other specific GitHub Acceptable Use Policies in this 'GitHub Site Policies for Startups' repository.
Being part of a community includes recognizing how your behavior affects others and engaging in meaningful and productive interactions with people and the platform they rely on.
We do not allow behavior that significantly or continually disrupts the experience of other users. This includes:
Posting off-topic comments
Opening empty or meaningless issues or pull requests
Starring and/or following accounts or repositories in large volume in a short period of time
Creating nonsensical or irrelevant code reviews
Engaging with platform features in a way that causes excessive notifications for other users
Using any other platform feature in a way that creates disruption
While we encourage maintainers to moderate their own projects on an individual basis, [company name] staff may take further restrictive action against accounts that are engaging in these types of behaviors.
Please note that the above conduct may also violate other restrictions in our [Acceptable Use] Policies. For example, depending on the nature and severity of the activity, it may rise to the level of bullying and harassment.
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