Our friend tupac is already covered by our standard rate limits.
This protection was introduced to stop brand new users from “dominating” topics due to patterns you observed at boing boing.
Anyway we can add “account must be 24 hours or older” to the new user priv, and communicate it to users somehow. I want users to learn what they need to do to become “regular” users.
At the absolute bare minimum 2 things should happen:
- Don’t let people type in 1000 words just to discover we are going to tell them they can not post, that is very poor form.
- Fix the error message: “You can no longer post in this topic cause your account is less than 24 hours old”