From 60d65eda30665ec5913e4130092462086711291b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robin C. Ladiges" <rcl.git@blackpinguin.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:28:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [discord] flood protection against repeated messages

allow one repetition within 20 seconds.

b/c of rate limits imposed by the new API
---
 Server/DiscordBot.cs | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Server/DiscordBot.cs b/Server/DiscordBot.cs
index b8b71d4..5daa183 100644
--- a/Server/DiscordBot.cs
+++ b/Server/DiscordBot.cs
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ public class DiscordBot
     private SocketTextChannel? logChannel = null;
     private bool firstInitTriggered = false;
 
+    private DateTime lastMessageStamp = DateTime.Now;
+    private string   lastMessage      = "";
+    private bool     repeatedMessage  = false;
+
     //check how this works with neither, one or the other, or both channels set.
 
     public DiscordBot()
@@ -158,6 +162,23 @@ private async void LogToDiscordLogChannel(string source, string level, string te
         logChannel = (ulong.TryParse(localSettings.AdminChannel, out ulong lcid) ? (client != null ? await client.GetChannelAsync(lcid) : null) : null) as SocketTextChannel;
         if (logChannel != null)
         {
+            // prevent logging the same text too often in a short timeframe
+            DateTime newTime = DateTime.Now;
+            if (text == lastMessage)
+            {
+                if (repeatedMessage && newTime <= lastMessageStamp)
+                {
+                    return;
+                }
+                repeatedMessage = true;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                repeatedMessage = false;
+            }
+            lastMessage      = text;
+            lastMessageStamp = newTime.Add(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));
+
             try
             {
                 switch (color)