zorchenhimer/MovieNight

Don't allow clients to repeat a message

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joeyak commented

The server will keep track of the last message a client sent, and if it is the same, it will send a message like "You cannot send the same message in a row"

zorchenhimer commented

I'd like to expand this into a more general rate-limiting scheme.

For example, a client will not be allowed to same the same message as the previous, if the previous was less than ~30 seconds ago. As well as a one second cooldown per client (client cannot send messages faster than 1msg/sec).

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joeyak commented

I agree with the expansion. But admins should not be rate limited, maybe even mods. What do you think on mods being rate limited?

zorchenhimer commented

Mods and admins already have exceptions to a bunch of commands and functionality (eg, links in chat), so I think it's within reason that they would also be exempt from rate-limiting.

zorchenhimer commented

To add onto this, things like changing your display name should be on a longer cooldown. Something like five minutes by default.