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khaled0111

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@LoyceV and@TryNinja, thank you for your valuable inputs. It appears that thinking that db write operations are always slower than read operations is just another common misconception.

Quote from: RapTarX on June 14, 2020, 11:38:35 AM

Bulk reporting? How will it work? Imagine, I'm on a thread where 70% of the posts are spam, how will I report all them?

a simple but not really practical solution would be adding a check box next to each post and a "report all" button at the bottom of the page

TryNinja

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Quote from: khaled0111 on June 14, 2020, 11:12:25 AM

Excuse my ignorance but isn't posting more resource-intensive than loading a page and scraping its contents (server side)!

From my experience with scrapping posts/merits, it usually takes more processing power to read stuff in a database (due to its size) than write. Finding stuff is harder than just "throwing" a new one in the pile.

Quote from: bob123 on June 14, 2020, 12:03:04 PM

I believe someone had his limit lifted after politely asking of it publicly? Not absolutely sure tho.

I think you are talking about what I said above (user whitelisting). Sadly, this only puts the limit to the minimum (4 seconds). So its only useful if you didn't reach it yet.

LoyceV

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Quote from: khaled0111 on June 14, 2020, 11:12:25 AM

Excuse my ignorance but isn't posting more resource-intensive than loading a page and scraping its contents (server side)!

One page holds up to 20 posts. My guess is that takes more resources to load than adding just one post.

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OT, what about adding a feature for bulk reporting

The reason you can't report posts from a user's post history, is that the validity of a post can depend on other posts in the same topic. That makes bulk reporting tricky too: you'll still need to check each post individually.

bob123

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I believe someone had his limit lifted after politely asking of it publicly? Not absolutely sure tho.

However, i agree that this limit is quite annoying when reporting multiple posts in a row or leaving multiple negative trust feedbacks in a row (i.e. when tagging absusing alt accounts with the same message and reference).

RapTarX

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I don't usually report a lot of posts but whenever I do, I tend to do with couple of tabs to report faster which eventually make me more slower. It's a pain TBH.

Quote from: khaled0111 on June 14, 2020, 11:12:25 AM

OT, what about adding a feature for bulk reporting, wouldn't this solve the cooldown issue for reporters?

Bulk reporting? How will it work? Imagine, I'm on a thread where 70% of the posts are spam, how will I report all them? I would rather agree with LoyceV. It would be nice to have a requirement for getting limit free posting/reporting. For instance, 500+ report with 99% success & 500 earned merit users won't have any limit.

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Quote from: LoyceV on June 14, 2020, 06:11:37 AM

Except for spammers, I don't expect faster posts to have any impact on server load.

Excuse my ignorance but isn't posting more resource-intensive than loading a page and scraping its contents (server side)!

OT, what about adding a feature for bulk reporting, wouldn't this solve the cooldown issue for reporters? I understand that it can be abused therefore, if implemented, it should be restricted to those who have X good reports.

LoyceV

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Quote from: khaled0111 on June 14, 2020, 05:44:11 AM

Maybe the 4 seconds waiting time limit has been set to reduce the load on forum's servers not just to reduce spam! (just an assumption)

I don't think so, there's a 1 second (on average) between page loads to reduce server load. BPIP alone has downloaded 54333527 posts, almost as much as the total number of pusts (54617805). Except for spammers, I don't expect faster posts to have any impact on server load.

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Quote from: LoyceV on June 14, 2020, 05:23:44 AM

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Maybe the 4 seconds waiting time limit has been set to reduce the load on forum's servers not just to reduce spam! (just an assumption)
4 seconds won' really affect regular members but it can be annoying for active reports or for someone using a bot/script to post a comment at a pre-defined time.

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Quote from: TryNinja on June 14, 2020, 05:09:02 AM

This is the code for the limit:

Quote from: theymos on December 24, 2013, 10:50:28 PM

Code:

waittime = 360;
if(activity >= 15)
   waittime = (int)(90 - activity);
if(activity >= 60)
   waittime=(int)(34.7586 - (0.0793103 * activity));
if(activity >= 100)
   waittime = max((int)(14-(activity/50)), 4);

A very easy solution would be to if theymos can turn that last 4 into a 2, so that 600 Activity puts a 2 second delay between posts.
Or maybe a new line: if earned Merit >= 500, waittime = 2 (no matter what the Activity is).

I assume this limit was made to reduce spam, but is it still needed for accounts with high Activity? I haven't seen anyone posting close to 900 posts per hour, but it's an annoying restriction when reporting many bad posts.

TryNinja

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4 seconds is the minimum.

This is the code for the limit:

Quote from: theymos on December 24, 2013, 10:50:28 PM

Code:

waittime = 360;
if(activity >= 15)
   waittime = (int)(90 - activity);
if(activity >= 60)
   waittime=(int)(34.7586 - (0.0793103 * activity));
if(activity >= 100)
   waittime = max((int)(14-(activity/50)), 4);

If your activity is equal or higher than 100, the limit will be the biggest number between (14 - (activity / 50)) and 4, so not lower than 4.

Some people were discussing what were the limits of whitelisted users (when mods remove some limits from a lower rank user) in the Discord server, but in the end its still 4 seconds.

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