Developer says GitHub flagged account as spam after generating 327 CI/CD workflows in one hour

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A developer built 327 distinct CI/CD workflows in roughly one hour and shared the project as a GitHub toolkit. GitHub subsequently flagged the account as spam because of the volume of activity. The original post appeared on Hacker News, where it received 3 points and no comments at the time of the source material. The source text provides limited detail beyond the headline and link, so the reasons behind the flag and whether it was resolved are not stated.

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