• Ruud@lemmy.worldM
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    The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however…)

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        It happened at least a week ago and the user was banned at the same time

        OP is just reposting after the issue was already fixed.

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          Yeah even if this is a new new account of the same user, we could do without the why haven’t they been banned yet. I think we can all agree it takes time for the admins to notice these things - and they’re volunteers anyway. They need some leeway

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      Can we have a hard limit on community moderation so we never end up with POWER MODS which were one of the worst things about Reddit moderation.

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          I guess it’s achievable with hosting you’re using (with nginx ip block list for example if you’re using it)

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            What you’re looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven’t really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.

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            If they’re using Cloudflare it can do this too. Even the free tier, you can have one monstrously long WAF rule to ban a bunch of IPs

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          Spammers with a little bit of sanity in them will use VPN providers. The consequence is that IP banning effectively results in blocking VPN servers. For people like me, using VPN connections for genuine reasons (like a provider/government that cannot be trusted), this is problematic

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          I used to use stuff that had IP banning and it would just mean when I was on mobile data I would just randomly not be able to use it because some dick was wanding around getting IP banned using mobile data.

          People warrant IP banning userly are sad enough to find way of circumventing it and it’ll probably just makes issues for other users instead.

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        It’s so easy to change your IP address. All you’ll end up doing is banning a dynamic IP that someone else will get at some point