Rate Limits & Anti-Spam
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Note: Some limits only apply to new users. The number of days a user is considered new defaults to 3 but can be configured.
Rate Limit Article Update#
The number of articles a user can update within 30 seconds. To limit the number of articles a user can publish, see Rate Limit Published Article Creation below.
Rate Limit User Update#
The number of profile updates a user can make within 30 seconds.
Rate Limit Feedback Message Creation#
The number of times a user can submit feedback within a 5 minute period.
Rate Limit Follow Count Daily#
The number of users a person can follow in one day.
Rate Limit Comment Creation#
The number of comments a user can create within 30 seconds.
Rate Limit Comment AntiSpam Creation#
The number of comments a new user can create within a 5 minute period.
Rate Limit Mention Creation#
The number of times a user can @-mention other uses in a comment or post.
Rate Limit Listing Creation#
The number of listings a user can create in 1 minute.
Rate Limit Published Article Creation#
The number of articles that a user can publish within 30 seconds.
Rate Limit Image Upload#
The number of images a user can upload within 30 seconds.
Rate Limit Email Recipient#
The number of emails we send to a user within 2 minutes.
Rate Limit Organization Creation#
The number of organizations a user can create within a 5 minute period.
Rate Limite Reaction Creation#
The number of times a user can react in a 30 second period.
Rate Limit Sent Email Confirmation#
The number of times we will send a confirmation email to a user in a 2 minute period.
Rate Limit User Subscription Creation#
The number of user subscriptions a user can submit within 30 seconds.
Spam Trigger Terms#
Individual (case insensitive) phrases that trigger spam alerts, comma-separated. For example, if you are seeing a lot of spam about illegal movie downloads, you might want to consider adding these phrases: fullhd 1080p, free movie download to this field.
If any posts are published with these keywords, they will be auto-reported by your mascot as vomit reactions that you can confirm or mark as invalid in /admin/moderation/reports.
If any user names contain these strings they will also be flagged and user vomited, making their user score recalculat to a below zero[14858]