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minus-squareFizzyOrangelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoI guess an easy fix for that particular issue is to severely rate limit mentions. E.g. if a user mentions more than 100 users in 1 hour then delay them and flag the account. Then you can whitelist it if it’s a legit CI bot or whatever.
minus-squareColonel Paniclinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agothis could be gamed though - mention 99 users, switch accounts, rinse and repeat
minus-squareFizzyOrangelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoI assume there’s some barrier to creating accounts that makes it difficult? If not there’s pretty much nothing they can do.
I guess an easy fix for that particular issue is to severely rate limit mentions. E.g. if a user mentions more than 100 users in 1 hour then delay them and flag the account. Then you can whitelist it if it’s a legit CI bot or whatever.
this could be gamed though - mention 99 users, switch accounts, rinse and repeat
I assume there’s some barrier to creating accounts that makes it difficult? If not there’s pretty much nothing they can do.