This spammer kid eventually relented and had a conversation with us. It was very interesting. He admitted it wasn't a bot, it was just Ctrl+V. So you know what I did? I added a client-side rate limite...
We have some things cooking up for better spam mitigation. It's the biggest challenge of this decentralized, censorship resistant, encrypted protocol. To solve it perfectly requires a little bit of centralization, which can be employed only in large (adversarial) communities who actually need it.
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