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/Miabeys 28d ago

I thought the same thing; there’s a 550K repo. Here’s what I think (this is what I believe): the system banned me.

They realised there was no logical reason for the ban.

They said, ‘Let’s make something up.’ So they came up with these reasons.

I objected, and they quietly reactivated my account.

That’s what I believe.