/unb-plugin-ratelimit

Rate Limit for posting in Unclassified Newsboard

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Rate Limit Plugin for Unclassified Newsboard

This plugin checks how many posts a user made in previous timeframes. If a
user is posting too fast, it is assumed to be a spam bot. The user gets a
warning is removed from the forum members group and added to another (spam)
group.

Here are the current limits:

0  posts allowed in the last 5 seconds
4  posts allowed in the last 30 seconds
10 posts allowed in the last 5 minutes
30 posts allowed in the last 30 minutes

Feedback on the validity of the chosen limits is appreciated.

To install copy the ratelimit.* files into your unb_lib/plugins folder.


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Copyright (C) Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

See the docs/license.txt file in your UNB folder for details