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Rate Limiting
in Tech Support
Hello everybody,
I've noticed a bunch of us are occasionally super excited for announcing
something on party and kind of end up spamming the heck out of it. Like,
blocking, has prismatic barrier!, or even just wanting somebody
burnt real crisp and toasty XD
Here's a rate limiter script to avoid repeating stuff before a defined
interval has passed. The default is 1 second but feel free to add more
definitions to the rateLimiter.interval table.
Script: rateLimiter
------------------------------------------------------------------------
How to use:
In your trigger/alias where you want to rate limit something, a pattern
like this applies:
So just wrap anything you need rate limited in a CanTry()..Tried() block
and you're good to go! I hope this is useful, let there be less spam :-)
Love,
Ada
I've noticed a bunch of us are occasionally super excited for announcing
something on party and kind of end up spamming the heck out of it. Like,
blocking, has prismatic barrier!, or even just wanting somebody
burnt real crisp and toasty XD
Here's a rate limiter script to avoid repeating stuff before a defined
interval has passed. The default is 1 second but feel free to add more
definitions to the rateLimiter.interval table.
Script: rateLimiter
------------------------------------------------------------------------
rateLimiter = rateLimiter or {}
rateLimiter.last = rateLimiter.last or {}
rateLimiter.interval = {
default = 1.0,
blocking = 0.3,
}
rateLimiter.myTime = function()
local time = getTime()
local seconds = time.hour*3600 + time.min * 60 + time.sec + time.msec/1000
return seconds
end
rateLimiter.Tried = function(action)
local currenttime = rateLimiter.myTime()
rateLimiter.last[action] = currenttime
end
rateLimiter.CanTry = function(action)
local currenttime = rateLimiter.myTime()
local interval = rateLimiter.interval[action]
if not(rateLimiter.last[action]) then
rateLimiter.last[action] = 0
end
if not(interval) then
interval = rateLimiter.interval.default
end
return (currenttime - rateLimiter.last[action]) > interval
end
------------------------------------------------------------------------How to use:
In your trigger/alias where you want to rate limit something, a pattern
like this applies:
if CanTry("pt-announce-prismatic") then
send("PT Santar has prismatic barrier!")
Tried("pt-announce-prismatic")
end
So just wrap anything you need rate limited in a CanTry()..Tried() block
and you're good to go! I hope this is useful, let there be less spam :-)
Love,
Ada
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