Anyone know what caused the site to go down? I saw in Discord that people though it might be Kerry posts DDoS, but there's no way there's enough of them to take the site down, right?
The site briefly went into a loop where it was talking to itself instead of the internet
Oh god, is it... becoming self-aware? Imagine the abject suffering that would be chapo.chat coming to self-reflexive sentience.
Why is this person banned? There's nothing suspicious in their post history, everything seems fine here.
User 80085 also appears to be banned and they're not showing in the modlog.
No kidding, could we get an admin to comment on this? If they are capable of DDoSing the site, what else are they capable of? The site should be able to handle a handful of spammers.
Most (D)DoS attacks are done through bot nets and not individual users. So a single person can easily do an attack if they have a botnet. And because they have vote bots, they might have a DDoS botnet.
I mean, if it were one individual wouldn't they be able to just implement an IP rate limit?
There is an IP rate limit already (I think 30 requests per 60 seconds). Controlling multiple hosts with multiple IPs is not that hard. You can buy botnets on the internet, which are shit like smart fridges and infected PCs.