/a/ in need of some dire help

Dear /prog/enitors.

We need your help.

Some idiot script kiddie has written a script that spams /a/ with the same image rotated by 90 degrees.  at the moment it is fucking the mods over because the content is changing therefore they cant ban by ip.

What im asking is for you guys to come up with a way to combat this spam.  Cheers

This needs a solution by design, not by code. If somebody can come here and easily spam rotated images for hours on end, something in the design of the system needs to change. The most common route, obviously is capatcha/registration. I would recommend however for something like 4chan which is 'anonymous' by design to avoid this. I have several scripts capable of doing this and the only way of really systematically stopping it (for script kiddies ofc) would be to do a quick scripted check on anybody creating a thread to see if they are running a public proxy. Perhaps your best bet is to wait it out? He's obviously spamming because he enjoys the attention he gets when people 'acknowledge' that he is of some annoyance to them. Either way, a 'hard coded' or design type solution is not possible on 4chan anyway because the mods suck shitballs.