It appears that you get to blink stars on any message as frequently as you want, as long as you want. Some child on The Bridge has just found out about this and the only approach I can think of - banning people at random until the abuse stops - is not something I feel like applying right now.
Please fix this, either through rate limiting, not counting unstar events towards your 30 star/day limit, shadow star bans or whatever means necessary and super-linear combination thereof.
My suggestion: Make it like a bit like close votes. You get one star action and one unstar action per message. The unstar should refund the star (because the way chat auto-scrolls makes it easy to mis-star), but you shouldn't get to re-star the same message once you've decided to unstar it.
Thankfully, one of those morons children has done it long enough so that I could take a video to better explain the problem. And as you all can see, initially with multiple stars to later become redundant, this is quite annoying.
I'd suggest to block the user from starring (put a star on) any post for x hours after n (personal preference goes to the number 3) star/unstar actions within t hours.
n I mean star -> unstar (a click on the star and another click on it) actions. I use the chat a lot and that I recall I've only unstarred a message 3 or 4 times in the last year, I think 3 times in an hour is pretty light handed tbh.
> n within a t hours span period in the last x hours.
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