Definition #
Use of a network, product or service in a way that violates the provider’s terms of service, community guidelines, or other rules, generally because it creates or increases the risk of harm to a person or group or tends to undermine the purpose, function or quality of the service.
This may include distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, spamming, non-consensual data scraping, bot activity.
Network and service abuse is generally covered by your Terms of Service.
Discussion #
Discuss this label in the Service Abuse forum.