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The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide

I noticed that I can only perform certain actions such as commenting a finite number of times in a given period of time. Obviously, rate limiting is in place to prevent accidental misuse or ...
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50 question per month limit? [duplicate]

I get a message: Sorry, you are only allowed to ask 50 questions in a 30 day period Why is there a question limit? 50/month is just not enough :)
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Is everybody limited to asking 6 question within a 24 hour period? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask? Recently, I am learning iOS (iPad programming) and there are many new concepts and new frameworks, so I am asking questions ...
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How have I asked 57 questions in 27 days? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask? I thought the limit was 50 questions per any 30-day period. See my ELU profile. I've been a member for 29 days, and I've ...
Daniel's user avatar
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1 answer
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How many questions can you ask? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask? How many posts can you ask on Stack Overflow itself? I see a limit for 50 questions per month; does this hold for all members?...
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Why am I allowed only to ask 6 questions in 24 hours? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask? What's the reason for allowing only 6 questions in 24 hours? I'm very curious, and I like to learn quickly, and I sometimes ...
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How to know/expand my limits? [duplicate]

How do I know how many questions I can ask per day or per month? How do I increase these limits? I mean, at the moment, how do I know, how many more questions I can ask? And, suppose I reached some ...
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Question Ban: Should it be permanent?

Currently, new users who repeatedly ask extremely low quality questions, as defined by various hidden metrics, eventually get a "question ban". They can still use the site, but they are not permitted ...
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Please warn about exceeding 50 question limit prior to asking a new question

It's a shame to type out an entire question, press post and then: Sorry, you are only allowed to ask 50 questions in a 30 day period Could you put some sort of notice on the page itself before ...
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2 answers
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Should I avoid deleting my questions?

My Stack Overflow account is blocked. When I try to ask a question it shows me the error below. Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. I did some research and found that ...
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How do I enable jQuery?

I just saw this for the first time after a delayed page load: Stack Overflow works best with jQuery enabled I looked for the "Enable jQuery" setting, but my browser doesn't have it. It sounds ...
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4 answers
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What actions are rate-limited, and why? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide I've seen a number of time delay notifications on the sites. E.g.: you can only comment every x seconds What are all the situations that ...
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2 answers
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I can't ask any more questions for a while

I know this has been discussed already, but I asked a while ago if I was asking too many questions: Should I stop asking so many questions The general response was: No, I'm not I have more answers ...
Tom's user avatar
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2 answers
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Increase the limit of 6 questions in 24 hours

Is there a way to augment the limit of 6 questions in 24 hours ?
MEM's user avatar
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2 answers
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Let's have 150 question cap in 3 months instead of current 50 question cap every month

Why is there a cap of 50 questions per month in stackoverflow.com? I'm sure 70 is pretty reasonable if you ask me, but 50 questions a month is hardly 2 a day. Edit: My proposal is to have a cap of ...
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1 answer
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How to increase quota for questions? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: 50 question per month limit? I hit the limit of 50 questions per 30 days. How I can increase my quota?
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2 answers
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Limitation on submitting a question, is it an explicit request to create a new account?

When I was trying to ask a new question in Stack Overflow, the following message has been shown: Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Sorry, you are only allowed to ask 50 questions in ...
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2 answers
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Filtering out questions from unregistered users

I am getting (slightly) fed up with all the questions of (mostly) unregistered users, which go like: 'I want this or that, please implement my code' or 'Here is my code, what is wrong?'. I agree that ...
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7 votes
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Do deleted @replies still show up in the inbox anyway?

I apologize in advance if I am having trouble understanding if there is a Q/A already in place and if this is a duplicate as a result. It sounds like deleted comments not showing up is intended. ...
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3 answers
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Is it OK to only ask questions? What is the percentage of users always asking questions, and users always answering? [duplicate]

Ethics: I started really programming 94 days using Mathematica. I learned with 2 friends and SO. I asked 74 questions yet all answered with generosity. Sometimes I feel guilty only "asking". Then I ...
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How long does it take until account unblocked [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What can I do when getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account”? From few days ago I am blocked, I think the cause for indirect question ...
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Where to post (share) all of my Generic programming functions?

Much times I can see exists some usefull posts in stackoverflow and meta which are not questions, are posts to show something to the people, for example little tutorials or something similar, sorry I ...
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3 answers
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Should deleted/closed questions count towards 6 questions in 24 hours rule?

I believe that even deleted or closed questions count towards the maximum of 6 questions allowed in a 24 hour period. I don't think this is fair because you may not be aware of a duplicate which ...
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3 answers
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How do I group my questions?

The questions I have asked until now in Stack Overflow were related to my first project; now I will start my second project and I am sure I will ask many questions as usual. To quickly find these ...
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2 answers
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A question about the limit on the number of questions that can be asked [duplicate]

This may seem to be similar to other questions asked on this site, but I feel the answers given there do not answer my query. Hence this question. For 3-4 days now, I have been unable to ask ...
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2 answers
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Change "You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period" to non-positive scoring questions only [duplicate]

I'm getting this message: You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period I understand we don't want users flooding the stack. However, when these 6 questions are good, then why not allow the ...
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5 votes
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Add a section on rate limiting to the Help Center

When I read the post (assembly: what is the return value exactly doing?), the user mentioned that he had hit a maximum number of posts. I looked at the help page but didn't find anything. The help ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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Do numerical limits on questions apply to a single site or across all SE sites?

I know that I can ask only six questions within a 24-hour period on, say, Stackoverflow or meta (or 50 in 30 days). Do these limitations apply across all SE sites? That is, can I ask seven questions ...
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11 votes
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A specific question has been revised 16 times...what to do? [duplicate]

I have a specific situation for which I require the input of the community before I take action, because I am not confident enough in my evaluation of the situation to take the appropriate action. I ...
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1 answer
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Does the question cap apply over all sites, or does it operate per site?

For instance, can I ask 4 questions here and 4 over at English, in the same day?
Daniel's user avatar
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Balancing anti-spam bot measures against human efforts

Working on a problem with several parts to it. Posted a question on SO about one part, then tried to post another question about a different issue. Ran into the anti-spam bot measures (at least I ...
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1 answer
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What is the reputation in this website? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does “Reputation” work? I am unable to ask two questions consecutively in stack overflow because it is showing this message users with less than 125 ...
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Why can't I ask questions anymore? [duplicate]

I tried asking a question on StackOverflow, but when I try to do that I get this screen: I saw this answer but I haven't asked: 50 questions over any 30-day period six questions over any 24-hour ...
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