Would a bot get locked out if it responds to 20 PING messages in a short period of time?

[livewhiletrue]

You don’t get ping requests per channel or account, but per connection. You can circumvent the 20msg/30s limit by spawning new connections.

@brildum

The 20/100 message rate-limit is per connection, but the determination of whether 20 or 100 is used is per-message. Consider the case where a mod of channel ‘test’ sends 21 messages to room #test in 21 seconds. Since they are a mod on channel ‘test’, this will be allowed (100 message rate-limit). However, if their 21st message was instead to a different room ‘not_a_mod_room’ where the user is not a mod, their connection will have 21 messages (over the 20 limit for this particular message) and they will be IP banned. This is an artifact of this code originally being written with the assumption that connections only joined a single room, but its good to note this case for bots managing multiple rooms.

@george

Ony PRIVMSG counts towards the 20/100 limit.

So the pongs should not affect this limit.