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Subject: Massive Automated Spam
Hi,
we've been hit by automated spam attacks twice in the recent days. A spammer registered and then posted hundreds of spam messages automated.
I had to delete the posts from the database as there is no way to remove all posts when deleting a user. This would be a very welcome feature because I do have a few moderators with admin permissions on the board but nobody has access to the database. Maybe just a second button next to the "remove user" button saying "remove user and all his posts".
The second option I'd like to see is some rate limiting. Looking at the logs, the spammer created one post about every second. Automatically blocking someone who posts in an unreasonable speed would help to keep the amount of spam posts down.
Andi
we've been hit by automated spam attacks twice in the recent days. A spammer registered and then posted hundreds of spam messages automated.
I had to delete the posts from the database as there is no way to remove all posts when deleting a user. This would be a very welcome feature because I do have a few moderators with admin permissions on the board but nobody has access to the database. Maybe just a second button next to the "remove user" button saying "remove user and all his posts".
The second option I'd like to see is some rate limiting. Looking at the logs, the spammer created one post about every second. Automatically blocking someone who posts in an unreasonable speed would help to keep the amount of spam posts down.
Andi
