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Don't create infinite loop threads #17

Closed Lynnesbian closed 5 years ago

Lynnesbian commented 5 years ago

There are multiple situations that will cause an ebooks bot to create an infinite reply loop:

An ebooks bot mentions another ebooks bot
An ebooks bot mentions a bot like OCRbot or that alpine shell bot
Alice the Attacker creates a bot that constantly tags random ebooks bots

We need to guard against this. One possible option is to ignore a thread after already replying in it five times.