Heavy bot traffic using the search feature was causing long post delays

[PumpinIron]

For a while now I've been having a big problem with my forum (https://wranglertjforum.com) in which when you go to make a new post and press the "post reply" button, it would take 10+ seconds for the reply to actually post. Same thing when deleting a thread, editing a thread, etc.

I used the web inspector console and found that the core-compiled.js file was taking the longest to load (upwards of 10+ seconds).

I decided to use ChatGPT to help me diagnose and it led me to monitor...

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