new post creation needs a rate limit

[ProCynic]

seriously, try clicking madly on the post button.

[amshali]

I second that. Any ideas on how to do this?
CAPTCHA after a couple of insane posts?

[ProCynic]

just put something in the javascript that says it can't be triggered more than once every 3 seconds or something.

[amshali]

what if they don't do it through Web UI?

[ProCynic]

well, at that point you're starting to talk about recognizing a dos attack, which is a different problem

[ProCynic]

I like the solution I came up with in the latest version of bootstrap:
b4558f7

basically when you click post it checks if the post contains any nonwhite space characters and if it doesn't it clears and focuses the text area instead of actually creating the post.

[ProCynic]

Currently js prevents submitting empty posts.