Banned for spamming

[Aberlour10]

I got 2 min ban for spamming after I tried to get to the indy tournament where the max. number of participants has been already reached.

In this case I always try to get in clicking the request several times and its often sucessfull if smbd cancel the registration, I never thought

this "method" could be a reason for banning. Is this really neccessary and is the ban longer if this happen another one or two more times?

[barmar]

I think that's just an unintended side effect. The code just looks for someone doing the same thing repeatedly, we didn't think of this exception.

[Zelandakh]

It does not seem to look for someone trying to join a table repeatedly, since we have a crazy person in the Acol club who does this regularly.

 

Edit: please note, I write "crazy" knowingly, not as a disparaging comment towards the mentally ill. This person also does things like sending threatening messages and other "unusual" actions. Most likely they will get banned one day. I will not be reporting them though - it is easier to keep track of such users without a ban rather than have them create a new account.

[Heron]

Just happened to me, too. In my case it was for multiple attempts to invite somebody to a tournament. (Partner's connection dropped for unknown reasons and we were going right up to the wire trying to get into the 6pm ACBL speedball game, so I was clicking every few seconds hoping for it to register.) Of course just as she came in *I* got punted for spamming!

 

While I understand what you're trying to prevent, maybe it's another sort of uncompletable action that shouldn't count on the spam counter?