I volunteer to help delete these in the meantime if needed.

oh, that was why the forum was lagging a 30 minutes ago. Stupid ass

I can think of several potential fixes:

- Javascript: hide the buttons or change their onclick actions after a single click. Maybe the information being transferred through other means would enable attackers to get around this by disabling javascript, though?
- Javascript again, unless php can handle this: set a cookie whenever someone posts a topic or reply, saving the time of the event. If the elapsed time between presses is less than a certain value (say, 5s), give an error message.
- Additional parameters required: timestamp the submission event in the parameters being processed before contacting the server. In this case, I don't know how we'd go about storing whether or not another attempt was made recently, or what.
- More javascript: add a var to track how many times you've hit the submit buttton. Something like: if (postpressed) {alert("You already did that!"); return; } else {postpressed = true; normal_post(); }
- php: update the user's information first, before actually creating the topic. That way, even if the server is struggling with creating the topic in a timely fashion, it'd still have a chance to identify when users are pressing post too quickly.

And Braille Screen Input is dropping my dot3s so much, I just have to end it here. >.<

Turning off topic creation until you hit like 20 posts would at least stem the tide for the short term... because this will happen again.

Whoever is responsible for this topic apocalypse is a complete and utter moron, and Shelby band immediately, assuming it was done on purpose.
I looked at the active topics room, and was quite appalled to see this, Topics found: 1 to 50 of 1,135.

Yeah I can't even read the off-topic room because it's flooded with the same topic. Fucking peace of shit. Now we'll definitely have to automate deleting the topic, and unless the database schema of PanBB is set up in an easy to understand form (I don't know), that might be far harder than people think.
As for a technical solution? Yeah, we need one. Or we could just switch to modern forum software that prevents this from the start if the admins are incapable of modernizing this one.

Yeah, ban the fucker. community failure claws, anyone?

Agree with @George_Gaylord, this was no mistake what so ever and if anyone thinks that it was then something is obviously wrong with you.
So yes, ban his cunt.

I looked up if it's possible to transfer topics/posts from PanBB to Discorse, and I learned that it is. The admins said that it isn’t. Why haven’t they started doing that yet?

@21, we've talked about this in the past and it always ended in a lot of people bitching and wining about having to learn new forum software. I'm hoping that this example of just how fucked this software is will finally get the admins to do what's necessary.... But then again, who knows anymore?