EchoJS: Limit the number of new stories a user can submit

18 up and 0 down, posted by moliper 2034 days ago 7 comments

tracker1 2034 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

Of the posts that aren't spam, over half are from new users created for the post.  Limiting to 1 a day until reaching a certain karma would be a good idea.  The codebase is sinatra+redis, and I haven't even had the time to get it running to play with.

Unfortunately, I don't see most of the options for automating a way out of spam working much, just because of the smaller scale of the site and the nature of posts (legit and spam).

I've deleted most of the spammy posts I've found... would love to get a change for double karma back on downvotes on articles that are then deleted.

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moliper 2034 days ago. link 3 points ▲ ▼

Well limiting to 1 a day does not require a change in the code, only in configuration

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews/blob/master/app_config.rb#L50

I think changing that line to
NewsSubmissionBreak = 3600*24 
would do the trick.

"double karma back on downvotes on articles that are then deleted."
That is an awesome idea. I'll try to find time to mess around with the project and see what I can do.

moliper 2033 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

"double karma back on downvotes on articles that are then deleted." 

This will do: https://github.com/hawkeng/lamernews/commit/2c4862affcf7e0f460f368ee7aa7f32b45608990

tracker1 2032 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

Cool, I sent @fcambus a message to the commit on your fork

fallanic 2028 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

Thanks for looking into it 🙏 we do have a repo for echojs, could you send your PR here? https://github.com/echojs/echojs

Thanks again!

moliper 2027 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

I just did. 
As a side note the "source code" link in the footer is pointing to the original lamernews repo, perhaps change it to point to echojs' repo.