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Moderating comments and conversations

Moderating conversations creates a welcoming community for all contributors to your project by promoting healthy collaboration and de-escalating conflict. You can apply your community's code of conduct to discussions by viewing reported content, editing and deleting comments, and locking conversations.

Managing disruptive comments

You can hide, edit, or delete comments on issues, pull requests, and commits.

Locking conversations

Repository owners and collaborators, and people with write access to a repository, can lock conversations on issues, pull requests, and commits permanently or temporarily to defuse a heated interaction.

Limiting interactions in your repository

You can temporarily enforce a period of limited activity for certain users on a public repository.

Limiting interactions for your personal account

You can temporarily enforce a period of limited activity for certain users in all public repositories owned by your personal account.

Limiting interactions in your organization

You can temporarily enforce a period of limited activity for certain users in all public repositories owned by your organization.

Tracking changes in a comment

You can view the edit history of a comment or delete sensitive information from the edit history of a comment.

Managing how contributors report abuse in your organization's repository

You can allow contributors to report disruptive behavior directly to repository maintainers.

Managing reported content in your organization's repository

After a contributor reports disruptive content in a repository, repository maintainers can view and manage the report.