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[Feature Request]: Mode that throttles messages after /joining a channel #134

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Jigsy1 opened this issue Aug 4, 2018 · 1 comment
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Jigsy1 commented Aug 4, 2018

What with the recent "freenodegate" spam attack - which is still ongoing I believe - would it be possible to include a channel mode which prevents a user from saying anything in a channel unless they've been in it for more than X seconds?

Using +J as an example (since I'm not sure what letters are already in use): /mode #chan +J 120 - means that they need to be in #chan for 120 seconds before they can speak otherwise the message is discarded.

This would most likely require caching the Unix Epoch of the time the user joined a channel then comparing it against the current epoch.

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edk0 commented Oct 29, 2018

This isn't technically hard (though it's operationally tedious for freenode because it would require restarting ircd) but I don't think it would do much good against spam—it's too easy to just configure the bots to wait out the delay.

With that said, it might be a feature we want, but I hope this'll serve as an explanation of why there hasn't been any activity on this issue.

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