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    Only 20 flags/hour?
    – bjb568
    Commented Apr 5, 2015 at 18:16
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    @bjb It was sort of an arbitrary choice.
    – user206222
    Commented Apr 5, 2015 at 18:39
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    That seems lower than now since people usually only flag for 1 or 2 hours/day. 100 flags/hour seems more suitable.
    – bjb568
    Commented Apr 5, 2015 at 19:34
  • @bjb568 [shrug], if SE considers this, it'll be debated enough internally to come to a reasonable value. The value I put here isn't too important.
    – user206222
    Commented Apr 5, 2015 at 19:36
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    Does anyone with 20k, or 10k, or even 3k, even have the slightest chance of capping their 100 flags/day? I have trouble spending more than 30 a day even going through all my reviews and bumming around for a few hours in new posts.
    – Nathan Tuggy
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 20:55
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    @Nathan Flags, not so much. Close votes, yes. The point is to allow effectively unlimited flags and votes, while still keeping a rate limit so it isn't abused terribly.
    – user206222
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 21:14
  • @Emrakul: Fair enough; perhaps you could reword to clarify the more important bit and mention specific cv rate limits.
    – Nathan Tuggy
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 21:18
  • @bjb how are you going to raise 100 flags per hour (i.e. one flag per 36 seconds)? This is absolutely impossible, unless you are explicitly searching for the posts to flag, which is discouraged (and even in this case it'd be pretty difficult).
    – nicael
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 16:05
  • @nicael Explicitly search for bad posts? Peh, just see the front page. If I didn't have 3k I could get thru 100 flags in 3 minutes just combing thru a tag page.
    – bjb568
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 16:57
  • @bjb in this case, it's applicable only to Stack Overflow.
    – nicael
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 17:17
  • @nicael Yeah, I suppose, but SO also has a huge number of 30k users.
    – bjb568
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 17:40
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    @NathanTuggy I don't know bout others, But I've spent 100 flags in 4 hrs. You get a lot of bad posts on Stack Overflow.
    – Bhargav Rao
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 11:05
  • @BhargavRao: Yes, I was speaking from an SO perspective at the time, and, if memory serves, spending 3-4 hours a day on moderation. I still have trouble imagining how anyone could hold up under the load of flagging so much, unless perhaps they were doing a dedicated tag cleanup. (That wouldn't likely be sustainable anyway for long.)
    – Nathan Tuggy
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 11:08
  • @Nathan, The new answers to old questions tool for 10k, is a gold mine of flags. There are 25 pages. If we go through the 25 pages at once, it'll be easily 40-50 flags. (Get to 10k on ELL asap, You'll get to know that ;) ...). There are many other users who cap 100 flags almost everyday. It just needs patience imo. EDIT: Flagged 2 new NAAs even as I was writing this comment
    – Bhargav Rao
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 11:12
  • @BhargavRao: Even when I had 2k privileges when ELL was in beta, and was spending more time in 2k tools than any two other users (OK, hyperbole), I didn't raise many flags at all. Nowhere near 100. (ELL gets much less traffic, obviously.)
    – Nathan Tuggy
    Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 11:13