From 1fb783eb7f094e868dbc51238c4846b9734bfde9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giovanni Petrantoni <7008900+sinkingsugar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:50:42 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] let apps decide if they want to penalize peers on invalid
 topic

---
 libp2p/protocols/pubsub/gossipsub.nim | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libp2p/protocols/pubsub/gossipsub.nim b/libp2p/protocols/pubsub/gossipsub.nim
index f77ecc3..16328d2 100644
--- a/libp2p/protocols/pubsub/gossipsub.nim
+++ b/libp2p/protocols/pubsub/gossipsub.nim
@@ -1034,8 +1034,6 @@ method subscribeTopic*(g: GossipSub,
   if subscribe and not(isNil(g.subscriptionValidator)) and not(g.subscriptionValidator(topic)):
     # this is a violation, so warn should be in order
     trace "ignoring invalid topic subscription", topic, peer
-    # also punish
-    peer.behaviourPenalty += 1
     return
 
   if subscribe: