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New Comment Limits Set

posted by paulej72 on Wednesday September 17 2014, @10:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-never-knew dept.

An issue was brought to our attention by user Tanuki64 where we were limiting the amount of comments a user could post per day. A code review showed that the daily limit was 10 for ACs, 2 for users with negative karma, 25 for users with less than 25 karma, and 50 for users with more karma than that.

We believed that these limits were hurting the community and the values have been increased requiring a slash reboot that gave some of you 503 errors earlier. The limits are now 150 for ACs, 25 for negative karma, 150 for users under 10 karma, and 999 for users with 10 and higher karma. These limits may seem a bit high, but we chose these values to make sure people using our Tor address would be able to post even if they all seem to come from one IP address.

As always comments are welcome, whether positive or negative.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday September 18 2014, @01:06AM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 18 2014, @01:06AM (#94749) Journal

    Can we reduce the "one minute between posts" limit?

    I could be mistaken, but I believe that is one of the benefits of subscribing [soylentnews.org] to SoylentNews.

    Unfortunately, I cannot be certain. The subscription page does a good job of explaining HOW to subscribe, but I did not see anything there about WHY I would subscribe.

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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday September 18 2014, @02:03AM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 18 2014, @02:03AM (#94765) Journal

    (I apologize for the poor form of replying to myself.)

    I found this story: Subscriptions Live on SoylentNews; Please Support Us [soylentnews.org] which was posted on Thursday August 28, @12:01PM [EDT]. It states, in part:

    In case you don't remember, here's the rundown of subscription features:

    • Subscriber badge (toggleable)
    • Early access to features
    • Exemption from ads if we ever run any
    • Full comment histories/access to database-intensive operations
    • No rate limiting or spam filtering

    As I see it, the benefits to subscribers are few enough as it is. (In addition to supporting this site — Thank You!) I would cast my vote for keeping this a subscription-only benefit.

    Given the opportunity for spam that these relaxed limits allow, I am not in favor of increasing the daily limits for Anonymous Cowards. (I seem to recall we got hit with some spam posts about a month or two into this site's existence. The time spent cleaning up that mess was time that could have been better spent in other endeavors on this site.) Like so many things in life, there are tradeoffs, and in light of these possibilities, I think it quite reasonable set limits who can post comments without a rate limit.

    I'd even go so far as to suggest reverting this change back to the rate-limit values we had before the update. SPAM ruined USENET for me; I'd hate to see it happen here, too.

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