422 Error When Attempting to Create a Gist: Is Github flagging spam?

[urbanistica]

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As the title says. I'm attempting to store JSON files programmatically from a Swift App. I seem to be following the Docs, I've got a token that's valid, I'm authorizing correctly from what I can see.

The JSON I'm sending to try to create the Gist is here: https://gist.github.com/urbanistica/fa2cab822cc7ce6a40f6b9394f811075

From what I can see, it's correctly formed. The JSON itself has been validated in different validators and comes up clean.

So that should mean that, as long as I'm pointing at the right inpoint, and the API json is correct, I ought to get a Gist, no? But the docs indicate that 422 is either malformed JSON (I don't think that's the problem), or flagging spam. But I'm not sure why this would be; it's just some JSON, in a gist. Other than that, I just use Github to store and retrieve project versions in a bunch of repos that seem A-OK....

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