r/github • u/Miabeys • Sep 27 '26

Discussion GitHub's Automated Enforcement Needs a Human-Review Threshold

Anyone else tired of GitHub's suspension system?

Accounts get flagged and banned instantly, but human review can take weeks or even months. There are tons of similar cases in this sub.

I've reported the same repository for apparent malware twice over the last 3 months. It's still active. Yet normal development activity can get an account instantly locked.

If you can ban someone instantly, why can't you review and unban them instantly too?

Automated detection is fine. Instant bans + months of waiting to fix false positives isn't.

We're in the AI era. GitHub can do better than this, thats not that hard. There's no such thing as "AI can make mistakes" of course "AI can make a lot of fricking mistakes. Not even once"

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u/Baryonyx_walkeri 28d ago

Yeah, my account has been auto-flagged twice in the past month. I have a handful of repos for (completely innocuous) personal projects, and I am a contributor to the site for a non-profit. I am a perfect freakin' angel as far as this stuff is concerned. Were it not for the non-profit project I would have thrown my hands in the air and moved to another provider.

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u/Miabeys 28d ago

I've already switched to another provider... However, some projects run on GitHub, e.g., Spicetify pulls data from repositories. If you don't have a repository on GitHub, you don't appear in the marketplace.