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Restricting New Accounts from Chat
With the rising availability and popularity of VPNs and proxies, dedicated trolls may often come back again and again with a new proxy after being IP banned and continue spamming. In order to combat this, a new feature has been added to make it more difficult to rejoin quickly and continue spamming.
Channel moderators now have the ability to configure 2 different settings:
- How long an account must be active before the user can send any chat message
- How long an account must be active before the user can send a chat message containing a link
This limit applies to both chat messages sent to the channel as well as private messages. Both of these settings can be configured from the Channel Settings menu at the top of the page, under the General Settings tab. By default, accounts must be at least 10 minutes old to chat, and 1 hour old to send links in chat. Setting either restriction to 0 will disable that restriction.
The age of an account is determined as follows:
- If the user is logged in as a registered account, the registration time of the account is used.
- Otherwise, the timestamp of the session cookie is used.
The session cookie is set whenever a user first joins a channel, and is reset whenever the user's IP address changes. Different browsers will have different session cookies.