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Flood controls for Aurora communities

With Khoros, there are limits on how often people are allowed to post, upload images, videos, and attachments, tag content, send private messages, and other community actions before triggering flood controls. Flood controls are in place to help combat potential spam. 

Note: Those with the Administrator and Moderator role are exempt from flood control restrictions; these thresholds affect only regular members.

The following table lists the default flood rate settings for various actions performed by the member within a specified period of time.

Actions

Flood Controls

Post content

   A member can't post more than:

  • 5 posts in 30 seconds
  • 15 posts in 10 minutes
  • 50 posts in an hour

Send Private Messages

   A member can't send more than:

  • 5 private message in 30 seconds
  • 10 private messages in 10 minutes
  • 50 private messages in an hour

Upload Images

  A member can't upload more than:

  • 100 images at a time
  • 5000 images per day
  • 5000 images in the community

Upload Videos

  A member can’t upload more than 500 videos in the community.

Upload Attachments

  Members can’t upload more than 100 attachments per post per day.

Like content

  A member can't give more than:

  • 50 likes per minute
  • 500 likes per hour
  • 5000 likes per day

Tag content

  A member can’t add more than:

  • 50 tags per minute
  • 500 tags per hour
  • 5000 tags per day

Mention people

  A member can’t mention more than 50 members in single post.


To configure these flood controls, contact the Support team.

Updated 8 days ago
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  • sloth2073's avatar
    sloth2073
    Maven
    5 months ago

    Hi Team,

    1. For these rules, are edits to existing content treated the exact same as creation of new content?
    2. Am I able to monitor anywhere how frequently the respective default flood controls in place are being triggered?
  • LarryI's avatar
    LarryI
    Khoros Expert
    25 days ago

    Hi sloth2073 - Hope you had a great Thanksgiving week! (Apologies, did not see this sooner)

    1. Edits to existing content are not treated the same as the creation of new content and the flood limits for the creation of new posts will not apply here. That being said, we will discuss the approach to take on this soon and consider adding flood limits for editing posts (given the prevalence of spam being posted after the initial post creation).
    2. We don't yet serve analytics on the flood limits - SahilC FYI

     

  • Lief's avatar
    Lief
    Executive
    24 days ago

    sloth2073- I just posted my recent change (enabling moderation for all passive ranks) that reduced my spam issue back to 2-3 /day (from 200+ /day).

    https://community.khoros.com/discussions/aurora-community-product-discussions/spam-control-using-moderation/767607