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    How are rate limits for non-humans implemented? Is a count of searches within a short period of time (lets say 5 seconds) calculated each time someone does a search?
    – user784637
    Commented Feb 19, 2013 at 8:41
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    Why are there even limits on the diamond mods?
    – Undo
    Commented May 31, 2013 at 15:52
  • @LanceRoberts What does "timer resets" mean, Sir?
    – Ave Maleficum
    Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 13:08
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    @AveMaleficum, when you vote on a comment, a timer starts. Everytime you click on the vote or flag button instead of having a smaller amount of time left, the timer resets itself. So you end up trying to time things in your head waiting for it to expire, see here.
    – Lance Roberts
    Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 16:00
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    There's also a limit for page requests per IP address per time period which I think must have recently been tightened (saw it twice yesterday) but I don't know what the exact limit is.
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Mar 9, 2014 at 17:44
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    Shouldn't per IP throttling occur only for anonymous users? IMO all API calls within the page should have a token associated with them and be throttled per user.
    – paulkon
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 17:21
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    What is the point of throttling per action with respect to DoS as opposed to global rate-limiting?
    – paulkon
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 17:36
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    ...yay, another 1 secondS. Why is it so hard to not fix all of these once and for all?
    – Werner
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 14:08
  • @Werner You linked to the tweet that answers your question.
    – michaelb958--GoFundMonica
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 21:07
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    @michaelb958: Sadly it doesn't answer it. It just gives Jeff's opinion about these things. There are so many quantifiers on this website and I wonder why nobody ever takes to time to consider the singular/plural issue from the start... It seems as simple as writing a function where you pass it the quantity and it will return either an "s" or nothing and append that to the quantifier. It seems so fundamentally straight-forward.
    – Werner
    Commented Mar 31, 2014 at 0:58
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    @Werner Jeff was the original CTO, and the pluralisation code was written under his watch (if not by him), so his opinion carries a little more weight. The current team could fix them now if it justified the resources, and if they weren't scared of the giant S. (They might be fixing them right now, and they just haven't told us yet so Jeff doesn't find out until that security upgrade's done.)
    – michaelb958--GoFundMonica
    Commented Mar 31, 2014 at 1:10
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    @LanceRoberts How should the chat throttle chart be interpreted? What's the data used to generate it?
    – Stijn
    Commented Jul 28, 2014 at 9:27
  • @Shadow, any reference on the comment rate-limit changes?
    – Lance Roberts
    Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 14:24
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    @bad_coder What you wrote here is that editing other people's posts is limited based on reputation. The answer you linked, answer to: How many edits can a high-rep user have?, explicitly states there's no limit to editing other people's posts, but that there is a limit to editing your own posts.
    – Makyen
    Commented Sep 14, 2021 at 4:55
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    Should not be triggered during normal browsing; if you get it, it either means you're sharing your IP with multiple users accessing the network I'm behind corporate network and there will be potentially hundreds of users accessing stackoverflow from the same IP address. We get the Loading pages rate limit fairly often with normal usage, is there any way to avoid this?
    – wim
    Commented Mar 22, 2022 at 20:21