----- Original Message ----- > From: "Platonides" <[email protected]>
> > Might there be some relatively easy way to hack rate limiting into > > the code? > > > > In general, except for triage WONTFIX runs, I shouldn't think any given user > > would need to comment on or status-change a bug more than about every minute > > or two, possibly with an exponential backoff. > > After fixing one bug, going to close another as a duplicate less than a > minute after the previous save, doesn't seem strange. There can even be > a few of them. Fair point. I don't have any non-vandalism clickstream stats, so I can't tell you whether that invalidates the suggestion, or merely means you have to tune it better. "Allow 5 changes in 3 minutes, and then require a 30 second delay that doubles after every three additional changes"? You see what I mean. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
