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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: ValiantExplorer on November 03, 2012, 10:05 am
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LATER EDIT: ok, not per IP. PER USER. (since we're using TOR, per IP is irrelevant)
This would help a lot with the bandwidth & availability of SR.
As far as I understand, there is trouble because a lot of people constantly refresh the SR page, which eats a lot from the service.
I'm not sure how this would be implemented, but I think a 10 requests / 10 minutes limit per IP would allow people to do decent browsing while in the same time everybody would have better service. Why 10 / 10 and not 1 / 1 ? Because some people need to go through 5-10 pages to reach what they need, and they could do that in 1 minute. If you do 1/1 they have to wait 1 minute after each request which is annoying.
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This is by far the worst idea I've ever read anywhere for solving any problem. This solution was just so far out there in terms of actually working that I would hope you were on something at the time of thinking it up because this is just awful.
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people will just spam new identity
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Ouch. I forgot about that :D. True.
Sorry. My bad :(. And no, I'm not on anything :D. Just got enthusiastic about an obviously silly idea and I forgot I was on TOR, LOL.
LATER EDIT:
Wait a minute. What if the limitation is PER USER?
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I was suggesting yesterday that users should take it upon themselves to limit their own rate of refresh *while the admins implement a solution*. It would help business keep moving for many people if the other people who are logged in but not actually doing anything aren't eating up resources.
But to implement that restriction on the server side would be virtually useless. It's not a solution, but an arbitrary number assigned to a dynamically changing demand on the servers. The admins are working the problem, I can assure you, as the problem is only a symptom of the enormous success of SR, so it's in their best interest to put in whatever time necessary (they are getting paid royally for that work). But whatever solution is put in place must be vetted to the fullest degree from a security standpoint, and there are many external, or future unknown factors that will affect the issue.
I'm just saying be sensible. I sometimes browse around, with no intention of purchasing anything or doing any kind of activity, so I assume many others do as well. It's just if I can't access the site I don't keep trying all day every day. It's that behavior that really amplifies the problem.
It's like an involuntary, distributed DoS attack on SR. Most people probalby aren't aware.