Hey all, this isn’t a post to complain about the limit but rather a prompt for discussion.

I ran into the post limit today when throwing some content up. I completely understand the need for a limit, otherwise you could have bots posting shit all over the place. But, it is a bit frustrating for a use case like mine.

I often, after work is done for the day, sit on my back patio and go through my RSS reader to get the daily news. I decided that when I found an article worth sharing I would throw it up on lemmy. I really like this site after coming from reddit. But it feels as though, with the current smaller user base, that there simply isn’t a lot of engagement due to the trickle of content currently. I was worried about people thinking I was “spamming”, but figured the increase of content would be worth the risk of a slap on the wrist. Thus, my burst of posting hit the 5 per hour limit.

I’m wondering if it’s possible to set certain users with an elevated set of permissions that would allow someone to go from a limit of 5 per hour to something like X posts per day. These individuals can be thought of as “ambassadors”, or something more accurate because I can’t think of a good name right now. Basically, individuals who have shown not to abuse the system, and in return can provide more content to the site.

I understand that the bursty nature of my posting is a bit of an edge case, but thought it was worth discussing. It would be nice if I didn’t have to save a bunch of articles and come back every hour to post 5 at a time :)

  • DessalinesA
    7·
    4 years ago

    /u/dietcokke The rate limiting can work off of any time frame. I just kinda chose 5 posts / hour arbitrarily to keep out spammers, but it could be increased to something like 20 / day, or 10 / hour… pretty much anything.

    • dietcokkeOP
      6·
      4 years ago

      I understand. I did like the idea of 5/community/hr. That does feel a little more scalable. Or having an increased amount of posting, but limiting if your recent posts start going negative. I don’t necessarily want to have things changed simply because it suits me. But I did think it was a good discussion to have.

      • SirLotsaLocks
        4·
        4 years ago

        yeah I think having a 5 per community and a larger limit overall because I want to help make this site more active but its hard when I can only post a couple times

          • dietcokkeOP
            5·
            4 years ago

            Thanks for increasing it. I went on a burst posting spree this morning and didn’t have any problems. It seems that 10/hr is about the magic number for me as far as being able to read multiple articles, and decide that I actually want to put one up.