Questions tagged [rate-limiting]
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.
99 questions
19 votes
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Rate Limit is not applying to Opinion-based Content
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. ...
-12 votes
3 answers
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Should the network-wide pending edits limit be reevaluated for SO?
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 ...
-5 votes
4 answers
781 views
Return delay between answering to 3 minutes for users with <125 rep
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 ...
-44 votes
1 answer
327 views
How can I schedule a question to be posted later?
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?
14 votes
1 answer
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Has the 30-minute rate limit between successive answers from <125 reputation users been lifted? If so, can the help center article on it be removed?
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 ...
26 votes
1 answer
340 views
Fix timeout for the "You may only open the close dialog every 3 seconds" notification
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 ...
6 votes
0 answers
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What to do about "Suggested edit queue is full" error when I am using Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
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 ...
10 votes
1 answer
346 views
Daily review quota - how do users gain more? [duplicate]
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 ...
-5 votes
1 answer
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Edited Questions Queue Link [duplicate]
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. ...
11 votes
0 answers
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Clicking comment flag icons at short intervals displays an error message with an inaccurate text
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 ...
-2 votes
1 answer
163 views
Does the 90-minute rate limit between successive questions apply to IP addresses only, or to the account as well?
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....
-48 votes
1 answer
346 views
Relaxing 6 questions in a 24-hour period constraint?
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 ...
11 votes
0 answers
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No feedback when hitting post flag rate limits
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 ...
-8 votes
2 answers
339 views
You have already deleted 5 of your own posts today; further deletes are blocked
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 ...
-7 votes
2 answers
158 views
When requesting vote counts, why not wait a second instead of displaying errors?
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 ...