The comment limiter, bane of my existence

While I understand fundamentally the need for such a comment rate limiter to exist to help combat comment spamming, chain size bloat and scalability.. However as it sits from both a user and developer standpoint it's incredibly irritating to constantly hit this restraint.

The 20 second forced delay has a very real impact not only on users wishing to respond efficiently to their comments but also severely limits network wide services that I'm currently developing. Imagine trying to serve a few hundred requests an hour while having a 20 second delay on all queued input & responses. Simply put it's not conducive to developers nor their services to impose such a delay on the services offered. |

On the user side of things one must realize that although reddit.com does in fact limit the rate at which a user can comment on posts it's not something that needs to exists. The need to limit new users comments to reduce spam is something I see a use for, however the way the current system is set up simply will not work for the mainstream as no one wants to wait to put their word in.

Proposed Idea to Fix This:

Rather than have the comment rate limiter hard coded in at 20 seconds we implement a system based off of some algorithm including reputation level, post count, account age. Allow those who put in work either in form of providing content or service to be able to skirt the comment rate limiter as it currently poses more potential harm than good in my opinion to those wishing to "power use" the STEEM network.

Truth be told I'm entirely unsure if the 20 second limit is imposed on the STEEM blockchain itself or on the front end of Steemit.com. Either way if some form of protection as I've mentioned above can be implemented it would certainly help those wishing to reply in a timely manner or run STEEM network services to properly run as they intend to.

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