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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Does Stack Exchange have any rate limiting that is applied only to archive.org, or to archive.org along with a limited set of other entities?
I tried to save a Stack Exchange page on https://web.archive.org/save and encountered this error message:
Please try again in ~1 min. Crawling this host is paused because they notified us that they ...
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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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Has anything changed about how SEDE counts request rate? I've started getting HTTP 429 recently
SEDE has been giving me HTTP 429 (too many requests) recently. I didn't used to have this problem. The past few days, I've just brushed it off and put up with it, but it's bothering me. I'm also now ...
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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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Which chat bots have a justifiable need for an increased rate limit?
I'm working on fixing rate limiting in Chat. As Makyen points out there,
The changed rate limit was helpful for SmokeDetector to handle a recent wave of spam
and so I want to be mindful of that when ...
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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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Spam influx: Time to reduce or remove spam flag rate-limiting for community members in good standing?
In recent days, Super User has been hit by a large amount of spam. The spam flag rate-limiting timer is hindering our ability to deal with the spam in a timely manner. Given the current context, ...
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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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Chat rate limit appears to be gone
Right now, you can post things in chat without any rate limit.
Proof:
(Notice the timestamps. I used a userscript but it's unrelated)
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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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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the network
Update December 10th, 2024
Our rate-limit on high-volume scripted requests to the network (described in bullet point 4 below) is now live. We expect that this will be the final update on this post. In ...
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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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Atom feed ratelimiting prevents feeds from being used
In a different location, Slate asked me to move this question from Meta Stack Overflow here and elaborate on the details.
The current rate limiting on the network prevents feeds from being useful in ...
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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 ...
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