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Activities such as searching, voting, editing your own posts, or suggesting edits are rate-limited on Stack Exchange sites. These restrictions generally exist to prevent abuse.

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I've noted that new users appear to be able to post multiple questions in short succession, despite the rating guidelines stating that there is a 90 minute rate limit for new users on Stack Overflow. ...
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Current situation 9 years ago, the current limit of 5 suggested edits per <2k rep user was implemented network-wide. Shog9 explains: These limits are based on my analysis of the speed at which ...
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This is a formal proposal and request that the rate-limiting be changed, so that users with less than 125 reputation do not need to wait 30 minutes between posting answers. For most of the lifetime of ...
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I just hit the 6 questions in 24 hours limit. How can I queue my question to be posted after 24 hours since my 6th-most-recent question have elapsed?
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On December 8 of last year, due to a flood of ChatGPT answers from new users, the rate limit for answers from users without 125+ reputation was increased from 3 minutes to 30 minutes. The global meta ...
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Several of the interactions with the site are rate-limited and will bring up a warning notice if you do them repeatedly. For example, you can only flag comments every 3 seconds. Typically, these ...
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Recently, I found that it says "Suggested edit queue is full" all the time when I am trying to edit questions on here, stackoverflow.com? It doesn't seem to be getting fixed anymore. What ...
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I have noticed that there has to be some kind of gain on review quotas. I remember having my daily limit on First Questions being 40, but today when I did some reviewing, I saw that my daily limit has ...
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Recently I went through a bunch of questions which were missing our open-source project tag and 'suggested an edit'. It looks like I have reached a limit on those as I get a message my queue is full. ...
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When you select the flag icon on a comment within 3 seconds of selecting the flag icon on a different comment, you still get: You may only attempt to flag this comment every 3 seconds Although I ...
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This is not addressed by Circumvented "once per 90-minutes limit" by changing IP address, as the rate limiting system has been completely rewritten since that question was asked and answered....
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I see You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period. This is somewhat restrictive for binge coders. Can this be somehow modified to take into account the reception of the 6 previously asked ...
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I was going through the Help & Improvement queue today and flagging 98% of the posts as low quality, as usual*. Anyway, when I was clicking Ok on the JavaScript alert, sometimes it was just ...
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I'll often hit this when deleting my own redundant or zero-upvote answers. It happens frequently that two users will simultaneously answer the question with essentially the same answer, no point in ...
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Instead of showing this warning, why not have the JavaScript wait one second before passing the user's request through? It would be a better user experience, and I have a hard time thinking it would ...
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