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Reporting abuse or spam
You can report behavior and content that violates community guidelines and terms.
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Owners, collaborators, prior contributors, and people with write access can report issues, pull requests, and comments on issues, pull requests, and commits. Anyone can report apps in {% data variables.product.prodname_marketplace %}.

About reporting abuse or spam

{% data reusables.policies.github-community-guidelines-and-terms %}

You can report users that have violated {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}'s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service through {% data variables.contact.report_abuse %} or {% data variables.contact.report_content %}. 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.

Users in India can contact GitHub's Grievance Officer for India here.

Reporting a user

{% data reusables.profile.user_profile_page_navigation %} {% data reusables.profile.user_profile_page_block_or_report %} 3. Click Report abuse. Modal box with options to block user or report abuse 4. Complete the contact form to tell {% data variables.contact.contact_support %} about the user's behavior, then click Send request.

Reporting an issue or pull request

  1. Navigate to the issue or pull request you'd like to report.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the issue or pull request, click {% octicon "kebab-horizontal" aria-label="The horizontal kebab octicon" %}, then click Report content. Button to report a comment {% data reusables.community.report-content %}

Reporting a comment

  1. Navigate to the comment you'd like to report.
  2. In the upper-right corner of the comment, click {% octicon "kebab-horizontal" aria-label="The horizontal kebab octicon" %}, then click Report content. Kebab menu with option to report a comment {% data reusables.community.report-content %}

Reporting an app in {% data variables.product.prodname_marketplace %}

{% data reusables.marketplace.visit-marketplace %} 2. Browse to the app you'd like to report. 3. In the left sidebar, under the "Developer links" section, click {% octicon "report" aria-label="The report symbol" %} Report abuse. Button to report an app in {% data variables.product.prodname_marketplace %} 4. Complete the contact form to tell {% data variables.contact.contact_support %} about the app's behavior, then click Send request.

Reporting contact link abuse in the template chooser

  1. Navigate to the repository that contains the contact link you'd like to report.
  2. Under the repository name, click {% octicon "issue-opened" aria-label="The issues icon" %} Issues.
  3. In the lower-right corner of the template chooser, click Report abuse. Link to report an abuse
  4. Complete the contact form to tell {% data variables.contact.contact_support %} about the contact link's behavior, then click Send request.

Further reading