I had similar issues with spam bots. Best defense is both a honeypot channel and cross channel spam prevention within a certain time bracket, about 1.3 seconds to 8.6 seconds is the sweetspot. The lower covers terrible internet and thats why its not 0.0 seconds.
I made my own bot for it actually, had a support subreddit and everything, got banned from there for bullshit. Now you lot have to put up with me.
Ive got Plex and im sitting on about 40tb of Films and TV shows. I got in early with the perpetual licence a few years back.
It was helpful for that for sure. 3d printing, TrueNAS, Bots, Python etc. But holy hell if you catch a mod on a bad day they can ruin years of progress. Its a shame it ended like that but its not the end of the world. Shit happens.
Plus… I dont miss the drama, everyone assuming your hostile when asking or talking about something.
I got perma-banned earlier this week. I make discord bots, was helping others out explaining some of the setups i use, a mod disliked that. Wasn’t against the rules. He banned me in a lot of places, I was trying to damage control due to how many I was being banned from, opening tickets and trying to at least figure out a fix or something and he painted it like I was stalking/ban evading, trying to find him IRL, from my own “business” account that was fully linked up to the website I had that was linked to my youtube/bots/bot building/game etc. Reddit took his side.
Means I also lost the subreddit and the users who were following updates.
End of the day, no matter how big the stuff gets, reddit is blacklisted and will remain that way indefinitely. They will never get business from me.
2024 I built my NAS with 2 x 16gb sticks, 2 x 32gb sticks for 94?gb of RAM. I got lucky.
Same with drives 14tb ironwolf pros, £200-220 each now £400+ each and I need 5 more of the fuckers.