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.
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Should we block OpenAI's Atlas web browser?
The 2024 changes to the data dump were made because:
Simultaneously, we know that companies have scraped or otherwise ingested Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange data to train models without proper ...
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Can we get more daily flags network-wide?
With regards to recent spam waves, I noticed a pattern. They will go full force on a seemingly random site on which the users are generally unprepared to handle such a high volume of spam, due to not ...
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Don't apply rate limits to flags in the review queue
With the current spam wave on (mostly) Super User, Mathematics.SE and Travel.SE I frequently encounter a situation in the First Questions review queue that I need to wait five seconds before casting a ...
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Is it maybe time to increase the users' maximum allowed flags for a Stack Exchange site?
With the current increase in spam across the network, especially the past 48-60 hours, I’ve managed to exhaust my 100 flags on Super User, not only once, but twice.
I don’t think Stack Exchange was ...
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Multi line chat messages are now limited to 10k characters?
Since the beginning of chat, multi line chat messages enjoyed the freedom of not having limit, or more accurate, they could reach around 2 million (!) characters.
However, as of few days ago, I ...
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Global Flag Summary userscript is no longer working due to rate-limiting changes
When running the Global Flag Summary userscript, 57 out of the 244 sites it calls to were successful, and the rest produced error status codes. Most produced 404 status codes, but towards the end of ...
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Weekly question limit: is there other than 1?
In moderator tools we have an option to see a number of questions that particular user able to ask on weekly basis. I could found only "1" and "0" (in case of no restrictions):
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Why am I getting "Too Many Requests" when I haven’t gone to SE in 12 hours?
For some reason, when I tried to access Stack Exchange today, it said "Too many requests". That was only thing displayed. However, I hadn’t visited the site at all in 12 hours, and I have never run ...