"Antiyanks’ is back at it again and has switched tactics to spamming a massive number of comments in a short period of time. In addition to being annoying, it’s having a deleterious effect on performance and drowns out any discussions happening in those posts.

Looking at the site config for the home instance of the latest two alts, the rate limits were all 99999999. 🤦‍♂️

Rate limits are a bit confusing, but they mean: X number of requests per Y seconds per IP address.

The comment API endpoint has its own, dedicated bucket. I don’t recall the defaults, but they’re probably higher than you need unless you’re catering to VPN users who would share an IP.

20 calls to the /create_comment endpoint per minute (60 seconds) should be sufficient for most cases, though feel free to adjust.