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This worries me a bit: I have another github account that is definitely a robot: it publishes documentation on github pages automatically on successful travis build.

There are robots everywhere: for example, the Rust's github repos won't work the same without bors or highfive.

If I remember correctly, the github itself definitely used to allow robots for such use cases.

They aren't worried about robots, they're worried about spam. The "we don't think you're human" error message was just to sound cute. Automation is fine; it's likely the poster pushed a spammy link or something that set off their filters.

No worries. This is triggered by heuristics that make it look like an account is compromised, like creating spam gists. Normal use cases won't trigger it, and if it does, support takes care of you within 15 minutes. That was my experience, at least.

Machine users are explicitly allowed in their terms.

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