Neil Harris wrote:
We now have a persistent rapid-fire page-move vandal
or vandals, using
the terms "Willy on Wheels" (and variants), "Pelican shit" (and
variants) and now "Sockster".
We urgently need per-user-account and per-IP rate limiting on page moves
for non-admins. The user's MO appears to be (according to a Slashdot
post, which may be from them) to use a tabbed browser to line up a load
of page moves in advance, and then to commit them all at once. They
_claim_ to be using bots, or to be a giant army of cooperating trolls,
but at the moment I doubt this.
A "leaky bucket" rate limiter with a bucket size of three moves, and a
refill rate of one page move per minute would seem like a good first
hack at the rate limit.
A minimum three-month age limit on an account before making a page move?
- d.