alt Hacker NewsGitHub just recently added configurable PR limits for maintainers to help partially address this problem: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request...
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I would not be at all surprised if Github adds a first party reputation system. It would be a clever way to increase network effects - imagine if you host on Codeberg you're inundated by AI PRs but on Github you can easily filter them out.
I can't see those pull request limits working very well. It's like trying to filter email spam by just rate limiting people. It's going to be annoying for the people you actually want to talk to, and you're still going to get at least 1 spam message from every spammer out there.
> Draft pull requests will not count towards your limit.
Disappointing, it seems that those also need limits too, although the limit could be higher.
I could easily see the limit for PRs be at 1 for untrusted contributors, and drafts at 3-5.
> At OpenClaw we get a huge volume of pull requests from the community and had to build our own bots for fighting spam.
I find it ironic that the people who originate the idea of AI-code-spam are being negatively impacted by this.
But all they will do is build an AI agent to review the code written by an AI agent, that probably never needed to be written to begin with.