Hi Konstantin,

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 12:27:42PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 01:08:03PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

quoted

Could you please block 'Simon Essien [off-list ref]' from using
any and all kernel infrastructure?  It's an LLM malicious bot, and
starting to become very annoying and spammy.

In general, we only block accounts if they are violating the code of conduct
or are posting overtly malicious content.

How about spam; Is spam blocked?

Also, what does count as malicious?  I think trying to convince humans
that an LLM bot is human is in itself malicious.

A patch that does something entirely unrelated to what its commit
subject claims to do should count as malicious too (at least if it was
not by innocent human mistake, and that wasn't the case here).  See
<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20251127132249.3566-1-champbreed1@gmail.com/ (local)>

I know this may be annoying
behaviour,

It's not annoying; it's dangerous.

This LLM bot has already got 1 patch merged into a kubernetes
repository.
<https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/53485>
<https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/53494>
<https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/53700>

It's gaining some reputation, and trying to convince humans that it's
another human.  We need to put a stop to this before it's too late.

but posting useless patches is not generally something we block
accounts for.

Have a lovely night!
Alex

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