# A small GitHub API change could make AI-slop moderation much easier

> Source: <https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/207369>
> Published: 2026-09-09 19:01:36+00:00

# Blocking users from organizations via API doesn't allow to specify duration and other options #207369

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[Apps, API and Webhooks](/orgs/community/discussions/categories/apps-api-and-webhooks)

### 🏷️ Discussion Type

Product Feedback

### 💬 Feature/Topic Area

API

### Body

The UI for blocking users allows specifying different options:

However, the [REST API for blocking users does not allow specifying these options](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/orgs/blocking?apiVersion=2026-03-10#block-a-user-from-an-organization), it only allow supplying `username` and `org`.

In the age of AI, dealing with large quantities of sloppy PRs has become a serious issue. Open source projects are resource-constrained: whether we deal with PRs through human review or AI-assisted review, nobody is paying us to do it. If even a few users submit a large quantity of comments and PRs in a short period of time, they can quickly overwhelm maintainers and CI, consuming quotas or even paid CI/AI services.

Many projects have decided to close public contributions altogether or migrate to competing or self-hosted version control platforms.

In my case, I am trying a different approach: keeping contributions open while automatically detecting and flagging spammy contributions. There are recurring characteristics that make these contributions relatively easy to recognize, flag, and close.

However, even when the contributions are flagged and closed, some users persist in spamming. In my opinion, the only real solution is to temporarily block them for 1 to 7 days as a cool-down period, and send them a notification with instructions on how to contribute properly, submit quality work, and avoid overloading maintainers with low-quality contributions.

I have been doing this manually, and I am getting good results.

**Please, GitHub, add the same blocking options available in the UI to the REST API.**

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