The "Sorry, you are doing that too fast" warning can be easily subverted. (voatdev)

submitted ago by discoball

https://imgoat.com/uploads/67d8ab4f4c/38146.png

I got the same message each time, all I had to do was add an extra space at the end of the text and hit submit again. There didn't seem to be a limit on how often I could spam the same thing in a given timeframe. I also tried this with changing my profile picture, and got the same result.

tl;dr: hit submit twice to post all you want.

edit for clarification: adding the extra space is to get around the message that says "You have recently submitted a similar comment. Please try to not use copy/paste so often." The "Sorry, you are doing that too fast" is the one that seems to be broken.

edit again: this is about the preview.voat.co site.

FOR THE PROFILE PICTURE BUG:

Normally, you would get this message if you try to change your profile picture too often in a short timeframe...

https://imgoat.com/uploads/67d8ab4f4c/38149.png

To force a new profile picture to go through and upload every time, all you have to do is click the "save" button at least twice in rapid succession. I was able to change my pic using both very large and very tiny images over and over again this way.

MadWorld ago

I always thought that part was only been tweaked on preview site to speed up the testing.

PuttItOut ago

This is really a problem with trying to balance a false positive on the spam prevention (which is time sensitive). What we do in a few places is that we reset the spam entry if the user seems to have triggered an invalid state via normal model validation. This is leading to a loop where this check is cleared on each request when it shouldn't. I will need to add in a check to see if the trigger source is the spam check or not.

Good find.

10201611? ago

I don't think you need to add the space. Just hitting submit after the error appears will force your comment or submission through. BUG.

Germ22 ago

Pretty sure this has been fixed.

discoball ago

Exactly.

Adding the space is only to circumvent an additional dialog from popping up that says "You have recently submitted a similar comment. Please try to not use copy/paste so often."

10201674? ago

Ah yes, I see. When I tested this with submissions I used the same submission title multiple times and did not receive any spam notification errors, but when testing this with comments I change the comment every time (incrementing numbers) so I did not have to add spaces.