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Closed Bug in rate limit logic

When I post to Poal.co, about 20%-30% of the time I get an error message of 'dayum, calm down...' When I get this error I always immediately just hit the submit button again because I know that this error is a false positive. When the submit button is clicked a second time it typically goes through.

No @AOU, I am not using a TOR connection or a VPN connection. No there is no other Poal.co traffic coming from my IP address.

https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/503525/829cbfb0-622d-4669-a7a5-78c28b9132cc#cmnts

When I post to Poal.co, about 20%-30% of the time I get an error message of 'dayum, calm down...' When I get this error I always immediately just hit the submit button again because I know that this error is a false positive. When the submit button is clicked a second time it typically goes through. No @AOU, I am not using a TOR connection or a VPN connection. No there is no other Poal.co traffic coming from my IP address. https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/503525/829cbfb0-622d-4669-a7a5-78c28b9132cc#cmnts

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Ask your ISP if you're behind a double-nat.

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I may well be behind a NAT at the ISP level... but this is the thing, I use one of the largest ISPs in the US... this is not a obscure corner case. This is how most traffic coming to the server will be... as evidenced by other users complaining about the same thing. This is why we (the tech community) typically have rate limit logic that is more sophisticated that just looking at origin IP...

If you don't think the bug is worth fixing or if you want to intentionally not fix it for bot protection that's fine, but don't call it 'not a bug, my code is fine, my shit don't stink.'

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lol

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And it is this type of dismissiveness and hubris that drive folks away from this site. This is not a shitpost sub. Some of us actually do know what we are talking about