Allow plugins to alter comment flood behavior

[markjaquith]

Currently, the 15 second rule for comment posting is rigidly coded. You can decide what happens before the die(), but it's always 15 seconds, and you can't stop the die().

The patch I'm uploading converts the 15 second rule to a filter, and creates a new filter. Plugins can hook in, examine the time difference, and make their own block decision.

Default behavior isn't changed, it just allows people to circumvent it.

[markjaquith]

Patch for /trunk/

[markjaquith]

Patch is up.

[westi]

This looks like a very good idea to me.

[Viper007Bond]

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[ryan]

How about wp_throttle_comment_flood() and 'throttle_comment'? We need to work the word throttle into the source. :-)

[markjaquith]

Pushing the "spammers as a motorcycle gang" metaphor a little too far

[markjaquith]

What's wrong, lady of the house won't let you get a REAL motorcycle?

[ryan]

(In [4265]) Pluggable comment throttling from Mark Jaquith. fixes #3175