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Thread creation rate-limiting hack
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Well, my forum was being spammed by a lot of idiots who felt the need to create a large amount of threads, and generally disrupt the flow of our bb.

I knew I could rate limit their posts, but it wasn't so much the posts that bothered me (they were easily pruned), but the irritation of seeing all those new threads until a mod could delete them all.

I decided to rate-limit it so users could only create a certain number of threads per hour.

Drop me a line if you find this useful or have an problems!

-Kyle

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Old 02-14-2003, 02:01 PM
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please enter the installation into a txt file and attach it to your post instead of posting the instructions.

that way pirates can't use your hack

thx
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Old 02-14-2003, 02:11 PM
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all set!
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Old 02-14-2003, 02:19 PM
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Cool hack, but im confused;
Is this a limit for a user, or for all users?
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Old 02-14-2003, 02:28 PM
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This applies to all users, except for moderators.

What happens is, these kids register accounts, get validated, wait a little while, then post up a bunch of crap (sometimes several people at a time).

We IP ban and ban accounts, but they are using proxies and yahoo accounts, so as you can imagine, its a bit hard to prevent.

Our board doesn't allow guest posting, and for all we know, any user could potentially could be a "spammer", so I've been forced to limit everyone..
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Old 02-14-2003, 02:35 PM
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Cool;
Hehe, this hack is a neat little way to prevent things like that - Thanks
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Old 02-14-2003, 03:48 PM
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Sounds like a practical hack. Good idea buddy !

- miSt
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Old 02-14-2003, 05:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Xenon
please enter the installation into a txt file and attach it to your post instead of posting the instructions.

that way pirates can't use your hack

thx
they shouldn't be allowed to see this forum then.
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Old 02-15-2003, 03:11 AM
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they shouldn't be allowed to see this forum then.
We are not ganna go into this again are we?

Guest can view this forum so they can check out what hacks are out there before they buy vBulletin, so if everyone puts their hacks into .txt/.zip attachments then no one has to worry.
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Old 02-17-2003, 11:37 AM
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/me licks install!!
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