Timeline for Please increase rate limit for new users asking questions to one used at Stack Overflow (1 per 90 minutes)
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:16 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | Damian Yerrick | With this clarification, I have edited my proposal. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 18:06 | history | edited | Damian Yerrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Given per-site clarification, I change my !vote to support |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 17:26 | comment | added | user40980 | @tepples correct. It currently exists on some sites. Stack Overflow has such a rate limit in place. Most other sites don't. In this request, we are pointing out that in situations where the OP had less than the 125 (see the rate limit guide - its a key threshold), and two questions were made in short order, most likely both of them get closed (and a worse experience to the user and community than if one was closed and we were able to help the user realize why that was the case). | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | Damian Yerrick | @MichaelT So are you saying the 90 minute throttle would be applied per-site and not network-wide? | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 7:28 | comment | added | gnat | new user can wait for a while before system recovers after prior homework dump posted from the same IP address. There is no need to hurry, this is even more the case with conceptual questions here (compared eg to generally "faster" coding questions at Stack Overflow) | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 4:24 | comment | added | user40980 | An example of this today is this post and this one - one right after the other (notice the post IDs). And 1 and 2 for those not having 10k rep. Neither of these questions are on topic. We might have been able to help the user not get two off topic questions closed in rapid succession if there was a rate limit. As it is, he's probably question banned (or very close) here now because he wasn't rate limited. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 1:01 | comment | added | user40980 | We get about 30-40 questions per day here. It is unlikely that two people from the same IP would hit this by chance. The problem that gnat tries to address is that we sometimes get a user who will post two or three bad questions in short order, have them get closed, down voted, and deleted in fairly quick succession. This would likely result in a question ban that would last much longer than 90 minutes. The suggestion is to try to make sure users get feedback on one question before asking another, and another. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 0:59 | history | edited | Damian Yerrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 | link to what carrier-grade NAT means |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 0:51 | history | answered | Damian Yerrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |