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Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead? How do comment @replies work? How do I view the recent replies to things I have written? … The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide Where can I find site community blogs? Which links and sites are handled specially (oneboxed) in chat? How do these oneboxes work? …
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Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds

Recently, Jeff was inadvertently alerted to the fact that the rate limit on comments was a flat 30 seconds, and that users could button-mash their way to success. … From the outside looking in, there is coincidentally a new bug with rate limiting vote count fetches that seems to have popped up in the timeframe for this change. …
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The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide

Obviously, rate limiting is in place to prevent accidental misuse or intentional abuse of certain features. Where else is rate limiting applied on Stack Exchange sites, and what are the limits? …
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Comment deletion and upvoting should not use the same rate limit [duplicate]

I don't see much point in the comment rate limit in general, and the rate limit should at least be smoothed out to allow reading several comments on one post, then upvoting more than one. … So, at least, don't count a comment deletion and a comment upvote against the same rate limit. …
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Rate limit for posting comments seems to not be enforced

It seems like the rate limit was not applied to them. For extra information: This was a 1-rep user, so does not seem to be related to any special privileges. … Either the comment rate limiting is broken or there is a very undesirable loophole. …
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Deleting a comment (mine) should reset the 30-second rate-limit

Post a comment. Notice spelling mistake. Delete comment, fix error, repost. OOPS! 30-second rate limit! Gaaahh! Go away and do something else, post the corrected comment when you come back. … If anything I should be encouraged, not hindered, to take the time to fix a small mistake in a comment. …
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Remove the comment flag rate limit when flagging comments on the same post

In Can we remove the 5 second rate limiting on comment flags?, a status-declined tag was thrown on a request to remove the 5-second rate limit entirely. … The reason provided was that abuse becomes more difficult to handle when no rate limit exists. …
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How were multiple comments posted inside rate limit?

If the rate-limit for posting comments is 15 seconds, then how were they able to post 6 identical comments in such a short timespan? …
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Unable to translate a comment on user Rate Limit History

The autogenerated comment on user Rate Limit History (История ограничения рейтинга) like the following one is not ready to translation: User Id {id} is blocked from asking questions for {days} days …
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Remove answer rate limit for community moderators

limit to handle this one contingency. … A reduced moderator rate limit has already been implemented for comments; see: Lift or reduce the comment rate-limiting timer for moderators …
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Hitting the rate limit when flagging comments breaks the flag dialog

If you try and flag two comments in a row, you run into the vote rate-limiter: However, after 5 seconds the flag button no longer works; instead you get: and another 5 second countdown. … You need to refresh the page before you can get the flag dialog to come up for that comment
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2 answers
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Wrong rate limit message when attempting to flag a comment

When clicking the flag link on a comment, I got the following message (emphasis mine): You may only attempt to flag this comment every 3 seconds. … It should be a comment instead, just like the rate limiting message for the flag itself: You may only flag a comment every 5 seconds. …
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Make the Chat rate-limit less restrictive [duplicate]

Rate limiting isn't supposed to get in the way of normal use; it's supposed to limit vectors for abuse. As such, most rate limits on Stack Exchange are usually invisible. … But it is infuriating to make a comment followed by a link to a question (so the link oneboxes). I do this all the dang time and hit the rate limit fairly often because of it. …
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Comment Time Limit Increased? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds So it's now 15 seconds until you can post a new comment, I can accept that. …
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Do not rate-limit deletion of my own comments [duplicate]

Deleting own comments is rate-limited to one every 5s, similar to voting on comments... not good. … An example scenario is a Comment thread where you were talking with someone who deleted their Comments (for whatever reason), rendering yours no-longer-useful. …
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