Altering length of account on hold for typing too fast

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Currently seems like the system temporarily hold accounts that “type too fast” after creating a new account as a measure to prevent bots.

Which is fine. However, I don’t understand if there is somewhere an option to change this length. I would prefer is those users are suspended for a longer time so that I can be sure that someone from staff review it. Currently, the time windows seem very short (but it might depend on from the availability of your staff I suppose)

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I thought they were silenced for 1000 years (effectively, ‘until a staff member deals with it’).

I’ve dug out an example from here on meta - ‘@system silenced this account until December 23, 3023. Reason: New user typed too fast’

3

Weird, maybe some moderator unblocked the users without me noticing. I’ll double check next time it happens. Cheers

4

Did you find this setting? We are getting this error too when a user supposedly typed too fast. It’s very sensitive.

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I believe this setting has had a recent update and is now called Fast typing threshold [1]:

Fast typing threshold

Minimum amount of time in milliseconds a user must type for their first post. If the threshold is not met, the post will automatically enter the review queue. Low is 1 second, standard is 3 seconds, high is 5 seconds.

  1. updated from min first post typing time ↩︎