Add limit to the number of contacts
Because of recent problems in some pods, I think it’s important to put a limit on the number of contacts a user can do, a limit per minute, hour, day and an absolute limit, also a communications protocol with users whose behavior may affect the operation of the system or pod.
Is it possible to set these limits from the pod?
Sorry about my english.
Juan Santiago Wed 29 Jan 2014 6:30PM
Yes, but the problem is to prevent thousands of contacts made on a day that shot down the system
Rich Wed 29 Jan 2014 9:27PM
Is this not an issue with the infrastructure of the pod in question?
Karthikeyan A K Thu 30 Jan 2014 10:06AM
I have more friends on diaspora than my twitter and facebook combined. I am against this thing of having a lmit.
Flaburgan Thu 30 Jan 2014 11:12AM
@juansantiago did you see a case where more than 1000 contacts were added in one day?
Waithamai Thu 30 Jan 2014 1:54PM
I have ~1500 contacts and it works perfectly fine on geraspora. ;) I guess that's some contacts but it is still nothing compared to the "big" accounts, diaspora hq, geraspora team, etc. those however did not add "thousands of contacts" within a day but over years.
I don't like the idea of a limit in general, but if one needs it I'd vote for a limit per minute, hour or day, but NOT an absolute limit.
goob Thu 30 Jan 2014 4:38PM
I'd like to hear from podmins about whether there is actually a problem when users have a high number of contacts before thinking about setting any kind of limit. Otherwise we might be trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist by imposing an unnecessary restriction on users.
I agree that if a limit needs to be set to restrict bots/spammers, a limit on number of contacts added per minute/hour would make more sense than an absolute limit.
Juan Santiago Thu 30 Jan 2014 5:17PM
@Flaburgan yes, and the user was expelled from joindiaspora and diasp.org for causing huge overhead to servers, ok I agree in no absolute limit, but I insist on putting limits per minute, hour, day.
If needed no prblem to name the famous person.
Juan Santiago Thu 30 Jan 2014 5:20PM
@Ricos Kavanagh No, not only that, traffic problems generated by interconnections between pods
Faldrian · Wed 29 Jan 2014 6:26PM
I think for some people this won't work... as I have ~400 contacts myself and know people with 1400+ contacts. :)