TWiT Army was brought down by spam tonight. A malicious poster entered the same horrid message close to 3000 times. The server admins were unavailable and I felt it was up to me to try and stop it. I ran some scripts that my coder wrote and was actually able to stop the spammer for a short time. We closed off new registrations but they must have a found a loophole. In my efforts, by running these unauthorized scripts on the server, I lost my access privelages. It's been a long day and nothing seems to have gone right. I made my choice and was aware that there may be consequences, but I thought I had to act. I would like to say that I am disappointed in the shear lack of admin tools in laconica to fight spam like this. I think that this should become a major priority for this community. I try to follow the tickets and the mailing list, but I must admit I don't ever really know what is going on and what is planned. It's all a bit of a jumbled mess to me, but maybe that is because I'm just a photoshop monkey and not a dev. I don't know. In any case, I hope I have influenced you to take a closer look at this problem.
Thanks, Ben (thefrogman) TWiT Army
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