HACKER Q&A
📣 codingclaws

Can you spam my forum?


I run an Internet forum that has no admins or moderators. However, it has an unconventional moderation system in place that has worked well up until this point. I want to see how it works under heavy spam, so could you please spam my forum? I will post a link in the comments.


  👤 mcherm Accepted Answer ✓
Cool.

Hey, before I get socially engineered into attacking some forum, would you mind providing proof that the HN post is coming from the same person who owns the forum?

An announcement on the forum which requested spam would do nicely.


👤 fairytale
What kind of spam do you refer to exactly?

I have just checked out your forum and it does not seem to have any sort of form protection (stuff like hidden form inputs or captchas to solve). This tells me that it would be pretty easy to create some automated script to overload your backend. Well, unless your backend has specific checks or ways to prevent this.


👤 codingclaws
I'm the OP. Here's the forum in question:

https://www.peachesnstink.com


👤 warrenm
Seems it requires signing-up ... gonna pass on this one