Saidit is currently undergoing the largest DDOS attack we've ever had

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[–]jjdub7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I heard ignoring narcissists makes them go away. Have we tried that in response to $demandList?

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes that is what we are doing now, and then they DDOS us and make more fake accounts with fake upvotes to make it harder to ignore them.

[–]jjdub7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm assuming in making the sock accounts they're needing to use new emails and manually complete captchas though?

Is it possible to configure a weighting algorithm to "tune" out the troll/white noise/fake accounts - something like weighting users' posting/voting based on number of other users' non-reciprocal upvotes times days active? something that would only ensure true user interactions are being counted?

That way 'cultural' attackers wouldn't be able to scale beyond one sub at a time and would necessarily require a team to brigade. prohibitively expensive and all that.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We don't require emails to register.

They might be completing the registration capchas manually, but it's possible they've figured out a way to bot it