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Change spam check to apply to local accounts and add a threshold#11806

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@Gargron Gargron commented Sep 11, 2019

Instead of detecting spam on first duplicate message, add a threshold of 5 such messages to reduce false positives, since the check will now affect local accounts as well.

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Seems good (and actually better to catch bots opening accounts on legitimate Mastodon instances) overall, although I'm still worried about false positives given that the automatic action is quite drastic.

I'll run that on my instance for a while to get a sense of it, although I'm a single-user instance, so…

@Gargron Gargron merged commit 4f6af87 into master Sep 18, 2019
@Gargron Gargron deleted the feature-spam-threshold branch September 18, 2019 10:53
hiyuki2578 pushed a commit to ProjectMyosotis/mastodon that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2019
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Instead of detecting spam on first duplicate message, add a
threshold of 5 such messages to reduce false positives
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