On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> 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.
wrt 0275 - I would want to integrate with the semantic web, is there an ontology like 0275 - even with something like WebID, but I think that pushes the scope of your problem too far. fwiw - The folks at FOAF are going to 1.0 soon and a re looking at final touches, might be something there to coordinate with? just a couple thoughts - ed
