At Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:00:45 -0700, Ed - 0x1b, Inc. wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpe...@stpeter.im> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > It seems that many of those who run multi-user chat services have > > experienced chatroom flooders. What best practices do people have for > > fighting this? It seems the best we can do in real time is change the > > room to moderated so that new flooders can't send messages, but that's > > not a very good solution and we should be able to come up with > > something better. I've been thinking about ways to use entity > > reputation (XEP-0275), but other suggestions are welcome. :) > > > > Peter > > > How about tar-pitting the flooders - like OpenBSD's spamd? (and not > the spam filter spamd) > It has a good feature set. I like that it works out at the firewall.
Tarpitting sounds good, the problem I can see that in heated discussion this could also trigger. Another Problem I see with tarpitting is when the flooder joins with 10 or more bots tarpitting would not be very effective. Tim
