diff --git a/.github/workflows/spelling-check-bot.yml b/.github/workflows/spelling-check-bot.yml
index a81250fc2f262cb..7c0300d2d463db5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/spelling-check-bot.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/spelling-check-bot.yml
@@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ jobs:
           npm install
           echo Running spelling check...
           output=$(npx cspell --no-progress --gitignore --config .vscode/cspell.json "**/*.md" || exit 0)
-          output=$(node scripts/linkify-logs.js "${output}")
-          output=$(echo "$output" | sed 's/^/- /')
-          echo "$output"
-          echo "OUTPUT<<EOF" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "$output" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "EOF" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          if [ -n "${output}" ]; then
+            output=$(node scripts/linkify-logs.js "${output}")
+            output=$(echo "$output" | sed 's/^/- /')
+            echo "$output"
+            echo "OUTPUT<<EOF" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+            echo "$output" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+            echo "EOF" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          else
+            echo "No typos found! 🎉"
+          fi
 
       - name: Report spellcheck errors
         if: env.OUTPUT != ''
@@ -43,14 +47,18 @@ jobs:
           > To exclude words from the spellchecker, you can add valid words (web technology terms or abbreviations) to the [terms-abbreviations.txt](https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/.vscode/terms-abbreviations.txt) dictionary for IDE autocompletion. To ignore strings that are not words (\`AABBCC\` in code, for instance), you can add them to [ignore-list.txt](https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/.vscode/ignore-list.txt).
           EOM
           )
-          comment_body+=$'\n\n'$(echo "_(comment last updated: $(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))_")
+
+          # create a new issue
+          # https://docs.github.com/en/rest/issues/issues?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-an-issue
           gh api \
-            --method PATCH \
+            --method POST \
             -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
             -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
-            /repos/mdn/content/issues/35634 \
-            -f "state=open" \
-            -f "body=${comment_body}"
+            /repos/mdn/content/issues \
+            -f "title=Weekly spelling check" \
+            -f "body=${comment_body}" \
+            -f "labels[]=reported by automation" \
+            -f "labels[]=good first issue"
         env:
           OUTPUT: ${{ env.OUTPUT }}
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}