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Old 03-06-2010, 09:53 PM   #1
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slashdot Your Rights Online ban
I just got banned by the Your Rights Online portion of Slashdot. kinda ironic

i was told to follow robots.txt to become unbanned.

Can the recipe be improved to avoid future bans?
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Old 03-06-2010, 10:09 PM   #2
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I just got banned by the Your Rights Online portion of Slashdot. kinda ironic

i was told to follow robots.txt to become unbanned.

Can the recipe be improved to avoid future bans?
I looked at it. It's got this warning in the recipe:
" description = '''Tech news. WARNING: This recipe downloads a lot of content and can result in your IP being banned from slashdot.org'''
"

OTOH, this is the simplest recipe I've ever seen. It has the feeds and it gets them. That's it. Nothing is stripped. My suggestion would be to limit the rate and the number of connections with :
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    simultaneous_downloads = 1 
    delay = 3
It may help, but who knows what they use to decide is wrong.
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Old 03-07-2010, 12:31 AM   #3
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I don't use the slashdot recipe (stopped reading slashdot a while ago) but I suspect they're rather sensitive to loading (can't blame them, they get a lot of traffic), so they probably have something along the lines of too many downloads from a single IP triggers a ban. I don't really see how that can be worked around. Probably, just follow Starson's suggestions and also remove some of the feeds you're not interested in.
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