User related risks - this ticket will be split into tasks later

[grzegorznittner]

• Accessing data of other users
• Making many comments/qa/bids
• Setting to many monitors
• Uploading pictures/documents -> could kill our datastore quota

[johnarleyburns]

Making too many messages/notifications could also cause this.

In general, spam. If you look at non-moderated comment sites, you almost always see lots of spam. People put comments like, "I'm a single mom working from home and made $32,314 last month! See more at http://make-more-money-today-123-easy.com". For qa we sorta have this covered, for bids sorta since it's not public, although it might annoy users, especially for comments and messages it can be a problem, since anyone logged in can comment and send a private message. So in general we need an anti-spam idea. Hacker News doesn't allow you to submit more than once an hour or so, that's kinda extreme, doesn't work with private messaging. There's pre-approval of users, whereby you submit to join and we have to manually approve. There's moderation of all comments, this doesn't prevent spam to individuals but reduces public comment spam.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Grzegorz Nittner < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

• Accessing data of other users
• Making many comments/qa/bids
• Setting to many monitors
• Uploading pictures/documents -> could kill our datastore quota

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[johnarleyburns]

moving to v2

[johnarleyburns]

We'll worry about this post-beta when we have more customers.