User downloads files from me like a f#ckin robot.

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My first message, so first I want to thanks Nir and all those who makes Soulseek's works, what a great tool for music sharing and discovering. Thanks a lot.

My request:
Hi notified there was an user wich download files based on searches with current words (like "an" "in" "at"...). He takes all the things contened these words without any logic... What's the meaning with that kind of behavior? For the moment I decided to put this user in "not shared". Someone else notify this shit?

Hi
have U asked him? I haven't seen SLSKqt plugins doing such strange things, but nicotine+ offers such plugins (autoreQ, Load balancing for UL/DL, ... ) which as any robotic can work like crazy.
In my opinion: this is your share, with whom U share and how much is absolutely your 'grace'. As in any P2P there are leachers, hogs (like your one: get everything that isn't nailed down), unfriendly people, (bandwidth) throttler, unfair, rude, ....
Cheers

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Hi,
In my reminder, he doesn't reply, so I put him in "not shared user".
As you says about P2P network, it was my opinion: a malicious user who want to throttle bandwitch or anything else harmful behaviour. By far it's the only kind of issue I have for the time I use Slsk. I just wanted to know more about this. Thank you dear.

I think I noticed that same bot. The nicks are Lola45, Lolo51 with two different but similar ip's. It runs 24/7 searching for terms from 1 to 4 characters in length.

Bots aside, in my opinion there is no reason for the network to allow distributed searches for one character (and other such short) search terms. It just bogs the network and clients down and does not produce results meaningful to a real user.

It's simple enough to modify a 3rd party client to at least ignore such searches and would be good if the server simply ignored the requests to begin with.

A recent 15 minute log of that bot's activity:

07:33:14 user Lola45 search Nick disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:33:25 user Lola45 search Nick disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:35:26 user Lola45 search The disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:36:56 user Lola45 search End disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:37:09 user Lola45 search One disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:39:38 user Lola45 search DBFC disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:39:49 user Lola45 search Get disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:39:59 user Lolo51 search Red disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:41:21 user Lola45 search To disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:42:20 user Lolo51 search Quel disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:42:39 user Lola45 search Una disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:43:25 user Lolo51 search Kill disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:44:31 user Lolo51 search ERA disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:44:35 user Lola45 search Iam disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:44:41 user Lolo51 search The disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:44:56 user Lola45 search L disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:45:39 user Lola45 search Manu disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:45:50 user Lola45 search Me disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:46:18 user Lolo51 search Les disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:46:27 user Lola45 search Rim disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:46:30 user Lolo51 search Live disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:46:37 user Lola45 search Rim disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:47:25 user Lola45 search J disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:47:34 user Lola45 search L disregarded as search threshold is 5
07:47:58 user Lolo51 search Enya disregarded as search threshold is 5