30 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
30 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
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Restricting New Accounts from Chat
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With the rising availability and popularity of VPNs and proxies, dedicated
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trolls may often come back again and again with a new proxy after being IP
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banned and continue spamming. In order to combat this, a new feature has been
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added to make it more difficult to rejoin quickly and continue spamming.
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Channel moderators now have the ability to configure 2 different settings:
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* How long an account must be active before the user can send any chat message
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* How long an account must be active before the user can send a chat message
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containing a link
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This limit applies to both chat messages sent to the channel as well as private
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messages. Both of these settings can be configured from the Channel Settings
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menu at the top of the page, under the General Settings tab. By default,
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accounts must be at least 10 minutes old to chat, and 1 hour old to send links
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in chat. Setting either restriction to 0 will disable that restriction.
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The age of an account is determined as follows:
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* If the user is logged in as a registered account, the registration time of
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the account is used.
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* Otherwise, the timestamp of the session cookie is used.
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The session cookie is set whenever a user first joins a channel, and is reset
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whenever the user's IP address changes. Different browsers will have different
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session cookies.
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