Levy’s suspension follows a tweet, in response to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, that ‘there are NO limits on the entry of food, water, medicine, or shelter equipment into Gaza, and in fact the crossings have EXCESS capacity’
Levy’s suspension follows a tweet, in response to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, that ‘there are NO limits on the entry of food, water, medicine, or shelter equipment into Gaza, and in fact the crossings have EXCESS capacity’
Spamming bot created 7,000+ garbage posts in less than 10 minutes after it was created.
Seems like there needs to be some kind of automatic system to catch that sort of thing.
Oh, there are, but in this case the volume was a lot.
Why would an automated system have a limit on how much content it could catch? That seems like the very kind of activity it would be designed to block since it does not at all resemble human behavior.
It’s not a limit on how much it can catch, it’s a limit on how fast it can process it.
I see thanks for explaining.
Can’t you simply ban the IP address of the offending bot and limit the number of comments a person can generate in let’s say 1 minute to some sane amount
From the discussions with the admins, an IP ban sounds possible, but with a VPN they can just change their IP at will, so it’s less effective than you might think.
As far as content throttling, that I’m not sure of. Definitely not at the mod level.
I saw that guy in another thread just spamming a Simpsons/George Floyd meme with incomprehensible text in all caps. It’s a shame you didn’t get to see such a loser!
All preserved in the modlog! :)
Lucky you!
Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to lol