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> star a GitHub project from your own Gitea instance How do federated networks prevent someone from making a few hundred accounts and starring/liking a bunch o
by ReverseCold 8y ago
> star a GitHub project from your own Gitea instance
How do federated networks prevent someone from making a few hundred accounts and starring/liking a bunch of posts?
- r3bl 8y agoDoes it need to prevent them? Do stars in a repo represent something significant?
- OJFord 8y agoHow does a centralised network prevent someone from making a few hundred accounts and starring/liking a bunch of posts? We seem to be doing OK by not caring much.
- Rjevski 8y agoWell in this case why Github, GitLab, etc.. do not allow you to "star" a repo more than once? I'm fine with stars not being significant, but it's still not good if a malicious actor can suddenly spoof hundreds of accounts and spam stars, comments and what-not.
- OJFord 8y agoBecause that's a completely different interaction. You can still create another account and star it again. Sure, your IP will be rate-limited (GH at least) if you script it and start hammering stars, but that's not because it wants to protect the integrity of the repo star count.