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Reporting abuse or spam

You can report behavior and content that violates community guidelines and terms.

Who can use this feature?

Owners, collaborators, prior contributors, and people with write access can report issues, pull requests, discussions, and comments on issues, pull requests, discussions, and commits. Anyone can report apps in GitHub Marketplace.

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In this article

* About reporting abuse or spam

* Reporting a user

* Reporting an organization

* Reporting a repository

* Reporting an issue or pull request

* Reporting a discussion

* Reporting a comment

* Reporting an app in GitHub Marketplace

* Reporting contact link abuse in the template chooser

* Further reading

About reporting abuse or spam

GitHub provides a baseline code of conduct for everyone who uses GitHub. For more information, see GitHub Terms of Service and GitHub Community Guidelines .

You can report users that have violated GitHub's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. You can also report issues, pull requests, or comments on issues, pull requests, and commits.

If reported content is enabled for a public repository, you can also report content directly to repository maintainers.

While we encourage using the in-product reporting tools detailed below, you can also report abuse directly through our contact form .

Reporting a user

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Visit the user's profile page.

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In the left sidebar, below the user's profile information, click Block or Report .

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Click Report abuse .

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Complete the contact form to tell GitHub Support about the user's behavior, then click Submit .

Reporting an organization

* On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the organization.

* In the right sidebar, under the "Top languages" section, click Report abuse .

* Complete the contact form to tell GitHub Support about the organization's behavior, then click Submit .

Reporting a repository

* On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

* In the right sidebar, under the "About" section, click Report repository .

* Complete the contact form to tell GitHub Support about the repository's behavior, then click Submit .

Reporting an issue or pull request

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Navigate to the issue or pull request you'd like to report.

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In the upper-right corner of the issue or pull request, click , then click Report content .

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You may see options to Report to repository admins or Report abuse to GitHub Support . If not, skip to the next step.

* To report the content to GitHub Support, click Report abuse to GitHub Support .

* To report the content to repository maintainers, use the Choose a reason dropdown to select a reason, then click Report to repository admins . Your report has been submitted.

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Complete the "Report content" form, then click Send request .

Reporting a discussion

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Navigate to the discussion you'd like to report.

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In the upper-right corner of the discussion, click , then click Report content .

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Select an email address and a category, then click Send request .

Reporting a comment

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Navigate to the comment you'd like to report.

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In the upper-right corner of the comment, click , then click Report content .

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You may see options to Report to repository admins or Report abuse to GitHub Support . If not, skip to the next step.

* To report the content to GitHub Support, click Report abuse to GitHub Support .

* To report the content to repository maintainers, use the Choose a reason dropdown to select a reason, then click Report to repository admins . Your report has been submitted.

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Complete the "Report content" form, then click Send request .

Reporting an app in GitHub Marketplace

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To open GitHub Marketplace, in the top-left corner of GitHub, select , then click Marketplace .

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Browse to the app you'd like to report.

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In the left sidebar, under the "Developer links" section, click Report abuse .

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Complete the contact form to tell GitHub Support about the app's behavior, then click Send request .

Reporting contact link abuse in the template chooser

* Navigate to the repository that contains the contact link you'd like to report.

* Under the repository name, click Issues .

* In the lower-right corner of the template chooser, click Report abuse .

* Complete the contact form to tell GitHub Support about the contact link's behavior, then click Send request .

Note

* Users in India can contact GitHub's Grievance Officer for India through support.github.com/contact/india-grievance-officer .

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GitHub Docs [direct]
Building communities [direct]
Maintaining safety [direct]
Management & moderation [direct]
Community profiles [direct]
Access community profiles [direct]
Add a code of conduct [direct]
Contributor guidelines [direct]
Add a license to a repo [direct]
Add support resources [direct]
Community health file [direct]
Encourage contributions [direct]
About templates [direct]
Configure [direct]
Syntax for issue forms [direct]
Syntax for GitHub's form schema [direct]
Create a PR template [direct]
Common validation errors when creating issue forms [direct]
Manage comments [direct]
Locking conversations [direct]
Archive pull requests [direct]
Limit interactions in repo [direct]
Limit interactions in account [direct]
Limit interactions in org [direct]
Track comment changes [direct]
Manage abuse in your org [direct]
Manage reported content [direct]
Block from your account [direct]
View blocked users in account [direct]
Unblock from your account [direct]
Block from your org [direct]
View blocked users in org [direct]
Unblock from your org [direct]
About wikis [direct]
Manage wiki pages [direct]
Create footer or sidebar [direct]
Editing wiki content [direct]
View a history of changes [direct]
Change access permissions [direct]
Disabling wikis [direct]
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