[tech] Mitigating the recent surge in Discord spambots

[dylanh333]

Hi All,

Just a heads up, I've changed the moderation policy on the UCC Discord 
server to the "tableflip" configuration (see attached screenshot for 
clarification), which essentially prevents anyone who has been a member 
of the server for less than 10min from posting anything. In addition, 
I'm also going to assume it requires that the user has been a Discord 
member for >5min and has a verified email account, per the less 
restrictive moderation settings.
This is in response to the recent influx of spambots advertising sexual 
dating sites. Depending on the complexity of these spambots, this should 
hopefully be sufficient for now.
If anyone has any objections to these moderation settings, or any other 
suggested mitigations, please let me know.

Cheers,
Dylan Hicks
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