Abuse prevention

[southrop]

Probably need to think about this some time.

• Throttling
• Input sanitation (probably not necessarily as we don't directly do anything with the input, instead we match against it)
• Ignore other bots

[omonomono]

Need to disable tweeting the @ symbol to avoid looping with other bots, if you allow user input from a spreadsheet.

[southrop]

Nah, the bot will never pull directly from the spreadsheet, so I think we're fine on that aspect.

[omonomono]

Well, not sure what you mean by that so I don't know how it removes the possibility of the bot getting into a tweet loop, but as long as you understand the possible issue.

[southrop]

As in I will always have full control over the list of possible things it can tweet. A bigger concern might be someone mentioning a bunch of bots together. Perhaps we should ignore tweets that mention more users than just the bot.

[omonomono]

That's a safe design. So is an actual rate limit.