Acceptable Use Policies Github Disrupting The Experience Of Other Users (GitHub)
Updated 17 October 2025
This GitHub policy outlines behaviors that are considered disruptive to other users' experience on the platform. It details examples such as off-topic comments, meaningless issues, or excessive notifications. Users engaging in such conduct may face restrictive action from GitHub staff.
GitHub Disrupting the Experience of Other Users
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, GitHub 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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