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Deliberately trying to create an extreme situation in order to find when/where/how a service breaks is inarguably "abuse" regardless of whether the intent was malign.

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I addressed this in another downthread reply. Briefly, I agree. My quibble isn’t with the term “abuse”, only the nature of its intent.

The intent doesn't seem particularly relevant.

Sure it does. Why would we even be discussing “GitHub predictably enforced rules in response to actions with no conceivable merit”?

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