Neil Harris wrote:
We now have a persistent rapid-fire page-move vandal or vandals, using the terms "Willy on Wheels" (and variants), "Pelican shit" (and variants) and now "Sockster". We urgently need per-user-account and per-IP rate limiting on page moves for non-admins. The user's MO appears to be (according to a Slashdot post, which may be from them) to use a tabbed browser to line up a load of page moves in advance, and then to commit them all at once. They _claim_ to be using bots, or to be a giant army of cooperating trolls, but at the moment I doubt this. A "leaky bucket" rate limiter with a bucket size of three moves, and a refill rate of one page move per minute would seem like a good first hack at the rate limit.
A minimum three-month age limit on an account before making a page move?
- d.