Posting/reporting limits

[PrimeNumber7]

While reporting some spammers today, I ran into some limits as to my activity. Specifically, I was unable to report posts more frequently than once every 4 seconds.

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

[bL4nkcode]

4 seconds isn't long to wait IMO, and I guess that's enough to prevent spamming the server to post submission of reports unless there's really a way to increase it to 3-2 sec.

[Chikito]

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

To increase the limit you have to rank up to legendary (2 seconds)

[PrimeNumber7]

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

To increase the limit you have to rank up to legendary (2 seconds)

According to this post the smallest limit to actions (such as posts and reports) is 4 seconds.

4 seconds isn't long to wait IMO, and I guess that's enough to prevent spamming the server to post submission of reports unless there's a way to increase it to 3-2 sec.

I was trying to report many posts at ~once, and 4 seconds was too long for me. If I were to build a bot to report posts, 4 seconds would be well below how quickly a bot could identify spam posts.

[Poker Player]

But are you talking about reporting posts of the same user? If I see they are bots/spammers and their post history is crap I just report one and tell moderator to look at their post history. Whenever I've checked afterwards, they've nuked them.

[bL4nkcode]

To increase the limit you have to rank up to legendary (2 seconds)

Is there a documentation or post from theymos or anyone that this is the case? The last post regarding the limits or reporting I've seen is only 4 sec. from welsh.

I was trying to report many posts at ~once, and 4 seconds was too long for me. If I were to build a bot to report posts, 4 seconds would be well below how quickly a bot could identify spam posts.

I guess you should give yourself a break when reporting multiple posts.

What I did, is clicking report button in new multiple tabs and only click submit button after the other tab finished reloading.

As for the bots, I guess 0/1-2 seconds POST submission to server will be flag as spamming.

[stompix]

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

Getting whitelisted from theymos, If I'm not mistaken Iasenko was whitelisted like that while he was a full member, but for him the delay was longer, 4 seconds might not be much you can deal with it, 60 would be annoying with the amount of spam we're getting in some topics..

[tranthidung]

New PM limits (and whitelist)

Activity	Max recipients	Max recipients if whitelisted	Max PMs per hour	Max PMs per hour if whitelisted	Max PMs per day	Max PMs per day if whitelisted
0	2	10	1	40	2	120
15	3	10	10	40	15	120
30	5	10	10	40	30	120
100	7	14	20	80	150	600
250	15	30	120	120	300	1200
500	30	30	120	120	1200	1200

@PrimeNumber7 is fine but OP is on the top of whitelisting. If others are at lower ranks and lower activities, one trouble is one account is only allowed to whitelist one time in account lifespan. You can not ask for re-whitelisting.

The problem of OP can occur if use bot to report or if OP click open too many pages in short time.

[eaLiTy]

New PM limits (and whitelist)

Activity	Max recipients	Max recipients if whitelisted	Max PMs per hour	Max PMs per hour if whitelisted	Max PMs per day	Max PMs per day if whitelisted
0	2	10	1	40	2	120
15	3	10	10	40	15	120
30	5	10	10	40	30	120
100	7	14	20	80	150	600
250	15	30	120	120	300	1200
500	30	30	120	120	1200	1200

@PrimeNumber7 is fine but OP is on the top of whitelisting. If others are at lower ranks and lower activities, one trouble is one account is only allowed to whitelist one time in account lifespan. You can not ask for re-whitelisting.

OP is not asking about PM limits but reporting delay of 4 seconds and with the amount of spam we are getting these days there are plenty of spam to report  .

Shout outs to all the mods that are taking care of the spam in a swiftly manner and all the reporters .

[PrimeNumber7]

I am whitelisted by virtue of my copper membership. My understanding is my whitelisting gives me a maximum of one action every 4 seconds, which is not frequent enough.

I have seen that table. I am not trying to send mass PMs.

I was using multiple tabs to report posts. I had identified a spam bot that used many accounts to make substantially similar posts and needed to report many posts at once. Creating a bot to report the posts would have resulted in the spam bot being able to make spam posts faster than I could report posts (in theory).

[tranthidung]

OP is not asking about PM limits but reporting delay of 4 seconds and with the amount of spam we are getting these days there are plenty of spam to report  .

Shout outs to all the mods that are taking care of the spam in a swiftly manner and all the reporters .

I have seen that table. I am not trying to send mass PMs.

I could be wrong but if I am not, the whitelisting is applied for post, search, report and maybe for data scraper too. The count for one post, one report, one search is the same and each ranks, each whitelisted user has to follow the above limits.

[Upgrade00]

OP is not asking about PM limits but reporting delay of 4 seconds

According to theymos, several actions are counted as posting by the system:

Several different actions count as "posting". This includes reporting posts and sending PMs

So possibly they all have the same cool down time to limit spam. It would also mean that there is a cool down time between different actions, so if you "report a post", you have to wait a bit before "posting a reply".
But I have no idea if whitelisting would apply to all restrictions.

[stompix]

I am whitelisted by virtue of my copper membership. My understanding is my whitelisting gives me a maximum of one action every 4 seconds, which is not frequent enough.

As far as I understood from Iasenko's post at that time whitelisting removed even the 4 limits barrier:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181595.0

Maybe a globalmod can shine some light on it, or till then some member that currently still is.

[tranthidung]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181595.0

Maybe a globalmod can shine some light on it, or till then some member that currently still is.

This one. Thanks so much. I remembered this whitelisting and re-whitelisting were raised by iasenko or LoyceV but can not find it.

You can't be whitelisted again.

You can not ask for re-whitelisting.

I am still finding proof for it but you are fast.  

[Chikito]

Is there a documentation or post from theymos or anyone that this is the case? The last post regarding the limits or reporting I've seen is only 4 sec. from welsh.

No, it's my assume, I dividing 2 every rank and I just knew it will stop at 4.

[YOSHIE]

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

Only two members have discussed the time limit for reporting spam.

1. @Welsh.
Topic: [Unofficial Guide] Reporting effectively

2. @suchmoon
Topic: [HACK] One-click mod report, not for the faint of heart

Edit: I should mention that queuing has certain limitations. "let PROMISE_TIMEOUT = 120000;" near the top of bct-background.js basically limits the time to wait for the report to be submitted to ~2 minutes. At 5 seconds between reports plus loading time it allows up to ~15 reports to be queued.

Only the two of them can solve your problem about spam delivery time.
Maybe they both have a solution for you, in terms of the 4 second limit.

I hope they look at this topic and answer the complaints you are experiencing right now.

[LoyceV]

To increase the limit you have to rank up to legendary (2 seconds)

I wish! But it's not

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

To increase the limit you have to rank up to legendary (2 seconds)

According to this post the smallest limit to actions (such as posts and reports) is 4 seconds.

That is correct.

Getting whitelisted from theymos

Hilariousandco whitelisted me, but it didn't further reduce the 4 second limit. I guess it only helps when you don't have much Activity yet.

I was using multiple tabs to report posts.

I've ran into the limit so many times. I now report in one tab, wait for it to finish loading the page, close the tab, and only then report the next tab. This makes reporting 50 posts quite slow, so I don't often report that many at once anymore.

[AB de Royse777]

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

Getting whitelisted from theymos, If I'm not mistaken Iasenko was whitelisted like that while he was a full member, but for him the delay was longer, 4 seconds might not be much you can deal with it, 60 would be annoying with the amount of spam we're getting in some topics..

If I am not wrong the global moderators can whitelist an account too. So try with them too if you do not get response from theymos @PrimeNumber7

But like other said, 4 seconds is very little duration. And concern is if you are trying to catch up with it means you are trying to keep your hands busy like a robot. Wanting to continue with this pace with your human hands - may end up breaking your keyboard :-D

[suchmoon]

Only the two of them can solve your problem about spam delivery time.
Maybe they both have a solution for you, in terms of the 4 second limit.

The thread you linked to is my solution. It works fine, I can queue up to 100 reports (possibly even more but I've never needed that, and reporting more than 100 posts at once would probably indicate that I'm overdoing it) and go do something else while it's working. TBH I would not want a shorter interval because the number of times I screwed up and had to cancel a report greatly exceeds the number of times the limit has been an inconvenience. 4 seconds between reports gives me plenty of time to react.

It's funny to see Quicksy harping about building a bot to report posts automatically after he attacked me for allegedly doing so even though I've never done that - always review my reports before submitting. Even if he were to build a bot he can report 20000+ posts per day with the 4 second interval... there aren't that many new posts per day.

[Harlot]

From what I have read in the past experiences of users the limit countdown is shared in several actions towards the forum since before I also have read (I can't find it now) that there was this user complaining that he can't open multiple tabs of BCT or go to the pages quickly because of the countdown people like what they are saying now seems to think that 4 seconds is not that a long wait and I agree I don't think there is a reason to decrease such an already short period of time already since it is already a reasonable time for any user to accomplish a task.