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From this thread/ticket: #14231: Ref: ##14225
“PS: You'd better make that something like 2 attempts within a minute.”
Something like that:
Auto-ban Repeat Offenders
Block after 2 attacks, in 1 minute
Block for this long: 60 days
This is better than just add/block IPs? And What about blocking based on bad words—too many words are going to slow down my site?