The Limits of Steem

in steem •  8 years ago 

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While we would like to think of Steem as a limitless playground, where we are free to frolic, post, upvote and comment to our hearts content, there are still walls to this playground, put there to protect us from the bullies and spammers.

I am not talking about the fact that your voting power goes down as you vote, since that just means that your votes are worth less.

I am talking about the frequency limits. I am struggling to find reliable data, but I believe that we are limited to 1 upvote every 5s, 1 comment every 20s, and 1 post every 5 minutes.

While those limitations do not seem terribly ominous, I have run into the last two a couple of times... Mostly when i get overeager responding to comments on my posts.

So, have you run into the Steem frequency limits?

How do you feel about them?

Do you think that they are fair? Are they too high? Too low?

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Seems like a good ideea! Let's stop the flood!

So, what kind of limits do you think would be better?

One post every 30 minutes. One comment every minute.
No limit for upvote because at some point upvote will be ineffective.

It seems fair to me. Keeps some of the bots in check too.

Good point

Nope never and I've commented a fair bit often on quick fire succession.

Like this. ;)

Got a 20 second notification.

See! told you so!

Considering how so many people seem to be trying to game the system, I think these limits are useful. I'd even restrict people to posting no more than 2-3 posts in 24 hours. I see a lot of people here posting way too often just trying to eek out anything they can.

If we keep this up we're going to get way too much quantity and not enough quality.

I think that 2-3 posts would be way too restrictive.