Yeah even if this is a new new account of the same user, we could do without the why haven’t they been banned yet. I think we can all agree it takes time for the admins to notice these things - and they’re volunteers anyway. They need some leeway
What you’re looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven’t really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.
Spammers with a little bit of sanity in them will use VPN providers. The consequence is that IP banning effectively results in blocking VPN servers.
For people like me, using VPN connections for genuine reasons (like a provider/government that cannot be trusted), this is problematic
I used to use stuff that had IP banning and it would just mean when I was on mobile data I would just randomly not be able to use it because some dick was wanding around getting IP banned using mobile data.
People warrant IP banning userly are sad enough to find way of circumventing it and it’ll probably just makes issues for other users instead.
The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however…)
Hot damn, you are fast. Nice job!
It happened at least a week ago and the user was banned at the same time
OP is just reposting after the issue was already fixed.
Yeah even if this is a new new account of the same user, we could do without the why haven’t they been banned yet. I think we can all agree it takes time for the admins to notice these things - and they’re volunteers anyway. They need some leeway
Why haven’t they been banned yet?
Since you banned my main for…
Why haven’t they been bann… Oh, they’re banned.
Can we have a hard limit on community moderation so we never end up with POWER MODS which were one of the worst things about Reddit moderation.
right? some people spam their own communities daily trying to force traction in them and run like 16 communities.
like fuck off be normal.
Damn this is such a good suggestion fr
do you also ban the IP or is it too much?
Lemmy doesn’t have an option for that but we’re looking into it
I guess it’s achievable with hosting you’re using (with nginx ip block list for example if you’re using it)
What you’re looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven’t really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.
If they’re using Cloudflare it can do this too. Even the free tier, you can have one monstrously long WAF rule to ban a bunch of IPs
Spammers with a little bit of sanity in them will use VPN providers. The consequence is that IP banning effectively results in blocking VPN servers. For people like me, using VPN connections for genuine reasons (like a provider/government that cannot be trusted), this is problematic
I used to use stuff that had IP banning and it would just mean when I was on mobile data I would just randomly not be able to use it because some dick was wanding around getting IP banned using mobile data.
People warrant IP banning userly are sad enough to find way of circumventing it and it’ll probably just makes issues for other users instead.
It’s so easy to change your IP address. All you’ll end up doing is banning a dynamic IP that someone else will get at some point