Nautbot - Vendor Post Limit Enforcement

[nautbot]

Post limit enforcement worked something like this:

• All vendors were assigned a "dealer" CSS flair, which made their visible flair on the sub and flagged them for Nautbot.

• Nautbot continuously scanned new posts to gundeals, recording username, user flair, url, etc.

• When a post by a user with "dealer" flair was found, Nautbot would compare the post's timestamp with the user's previous post.

• If the previous post was less than 166 hours earlier (two hour buffer), Nautbot would send a message to modmail with the username and links to both posts for us to review.

• All enforcement (removing posts/temp bans) was that done at the moderators' discretion, as often times we were seeing an immediate delete due to a title error.

Obviously, we can do checks at time of post.

[nationwide13]

Is there anything else we want to provide vendors with that's different from normal users? (Besides visual)

We need to determine a way to flag users as vendors (possibly similar to admin) and then we can send a message in the post submit controller.

Would you want to explore providing a warning to vendors?

"Warning: this is your second submission in less than 166 hours. As a vendor, this action could result in a ban. Please confirm and submit"

I'm no good with copy, but the idea is to remind them of the limit.

[nautbot]

We'd like enforcement to be at moderator discretion. In many cases, the vendor goofed their title and was doing a quick delete/replacement.

[nationwide13]

That'd be the goal. I haven't explored what postmill provides for a modmail replacement yet, but we'd create a message and send it to the mods

[DEVxALMIGHTY]

Collected more details on this feature from @nautbot

The below message (Desktop) was sent to forum moderators and each moderator could comment - similar to a group chat. This is referred to as "modmail".

This is a feature that we want to mimic to support Vendor Post Limit Enforcement.

Desktop

Mobile

[nationwide13]

PR has been opened #175

[nationwide13]

To use this:

Pre-Requisite: To add a rate limit, at least 1 User Group must exist. This requires Admin privileges and is in the admin menu. It's also ineffective if that group does not have any members.

Steps:

1. On the forum page there's a new option in the mod toolbox: Edit NautBot Settings
2. Select "Add a new rate limit"
3. Select the appropriate group
4. Set a rate
5. Save

Now if any member of that group posts multiple times and the time gap between the posts is shorter than the rate number, a mod thread will be created.