I wonder why Phoronix enabled such levels of protection? All I can think of is that their forum is pretty toxic. But surely nobody would DDoS phoronix.com just

I wonder why Phoronix enabled such levels of protection? All I can think of is that their forum is pretty toxic. But surely nobody would DDoS phoronix.com just because they were insulted for liking Wayland or, god forbid, Windows.