Hi. I recently joined the fsf tech team. I fixed up some spam we were getting on libreplanet.org over the past month or so. I also put some measures in place to prevent it. Thing's that you may be interested to know:
* The api is disabled. If you want to use it for any reason, just ask and we can re-enable it on a trial basis. The spammers were using it in bad ways and we would turn it off if they did again. * Rate limits have been adjusted. I don't expect anyone to hit it in normal usage. So if you hit it, please send a message here because it would be good to know. We can also give users admin to exempt them. If you get a 500 error and you've been making a lot of edits, that is probably a rate limit. They are on several hour long intervals. The fsf tech team will be regularly checking for spam at least every few days. If there are any known good editors who notice spammers, I'm happy to give them admin so they can block the spammers. I've also made sure the fsf tech team are all subscribed to this list so we will be more responsive here. -- Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: B125 F60B 7B28 7FF6 A2B7 DF8F 170A F0E2 9542 95DF https://fsf.org | https://gnu.org
