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I wonder how long that will last until GitHub bans them for (presumably) massive amount of spam. The fact that it's PRs only, not just issues, makes it a bit harder, but I can't imagine it'd be that hard to abuse

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To be honest, I was worried about that as well. But it's been pretty good so far. Gitmask always adds a comment in the PR mentioning where the PR is comming from, so in the event of any projects/repos getting spammed, I can hopefully disable PR's being opened against those projects.

To that end, you may want to include a prominent note on the website about how to report abusive activity and what your policy is for dealing with it.

Simply having that easily accessible may got a long way.

Good point.

Could also rate limit 1 PR for a given repo per day. Perhaps even have a queue.

I don't really want to go down the rate limit route quite yet, but it could be an option.

Can I also suggest making this opt-in per repo? I don't want this in my repos at all.

Oddly enough, just last week I got in a row with someone else with exactly the same idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7kp73c/anonymo...

Not sure why this is getting downvoted; given what we know about abuse online, especially in anonymous systems, I'd question if this project should even exist.

GitHub put a lot of work into their anti-spam systems and this basically let's people bypass that completely. If I was them I'd shut it down right now.

Because unfortunately people don't take kindly to critique around here.

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