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Not sure this is a good idea.
– tchrist
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 2:44
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IRC has a restraint. You don't see it. IRC will throttle your messages and induce lag on purpose. If you post too much too fast, the server will terminate you with "Excess Flood".
– Madara's Ghost
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 11:35
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@SecondRikudo True, but unlike Stack Exchange chat, I can at the very least post more than two messages in a row.
– Doorknob
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 11:45
@Doorknob given that chat works mainly on WebSockets now as opposed to the old polling system, I guess the restrictions can be made more lenient. But I'm not sure how the internal stuff works.
– Madara's Ghost
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 11:54
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@tchrist It would probably not be a bad idea if it were a privilege gained at 10k or 20k.
– TylerH
Commented Jun 16, 2015 at 20:24
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As a regular chat user, yes please. I understand some kind of anti-spam mechanism is needed, but a bit more leniency after a certain rep treshold would be very welcome.
– Stephan Muller
Commented Jun 17, 2015 at 16:26
I propose (rep/1000) + 2 messages in a row.
– Angelo Fuchs
Commented Jun 19, 2015 at 11:38
@MadaraUchiha it has the ability to. It doesn't have to. Just nitpicking.
– Qix - MONICA WAS MISTREATED
Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 19:02
The character limit for chat messages is huge. Anybody hitting this limit can just expand their thoughts in each messages rather than spewing incomplete bits in separate messages. The rate limit is already generous enough that even the fastest typists are never going to hit it and you can post whole walls of text in a row, you just need to hit enter less often. Send messages after whole sentences or paragraphs rather than after each word and you'll be golden.
– Caleb
Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 11:27
The difference is that IRC's flood limit is often quite liberal. On some popular networks, you are allowed to send 10 lines (512 bytes in size, including nickname, channel, and command) in a single burst, and then all subsequent lines must be 0.5 or 1 second apart. Of course, many bots with chanop will have their own custom thresholds for individual channels. Of course, then the bots might get lag and then ban everyone who was talking because it thinks that the incoming burst is spam...
– forest distrusts StackExchange
Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 9:13

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