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Raise the default power levels for invites, tombstones and server acls - #6834

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This PR makes the following changes to the default power levels power levels generated by /createRoom by default:

  • Raises invites to be PL 50
  • Raises tombstones to be PL 100
  • Raises server ACLs to be PL 100

Sytests: matrix-org/sytest#805

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Why is invite changing?

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@aaronraimist: spam, in a word.

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lgtm

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@aaronraimist: spam, in a word.

Is there a detailed explanation about this somewhere?

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Raise the default power levels for invites, tombstones and server acls (
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* commit '3404ad289':
  Raise the default power levels for invites, tombstones and server acls (#6834)
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Is there a detailed explanation about this somewhere?

From an internal issue:

This means that an invite spammer can sabotage a public room by joining it and then inviting thousands of users to it, encouraging moderators to shutdown the room to mitigate the spam.

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