Help? New Discourse user here. Was experimenting with re-sending an invitation from a post to a few people I’d already invited but did not respond. The original invite list was uploaded. The re-invite is being done from the [Invite] link at the bottom of the specific post. That’s when the “Sorry,…

[image] Ernie: Was experimenting with re-sending an invitation from a post to a few people I’d already invited but did not respond. To avoid looking like spam, Discourse limits how many times you can annoy someone inviting them to join the community.

Thanks, Jay. Do you know where I would find out what are Discourse’s parameters? Because I’ve only ever invited most of the folks on my list once.

[image] Ernie: I’ve only ever invited most of the folks on my list once. Yes, but [image] Ernie: Was experimenting with re-sending an invitation from a post to a few people You can see your invites at /my/invited/pending. I think you can see others with the data explorer plugin.

Aha, now I see. Thanks. To re-invite, I must do it from the list of Pending invites, not from the topic’s invite link. Thanks for your help.

I don’t really know how it works, but I’m pretty sure that you shouldn’t be able to re-send those links until some time period is up either, though.

[image] pfaffman: you shouldn’t be able to re-send those links until some time period is up either Understood. Actually however, it worked when I just tried using the re-invite control on the pending page, and the particular test email address was only initially invited four days ago. Will k…

Bumping this because I’ve come across the same issue as above, but I’m not sure this makes sense. Invites to topics are rate limited (I’m trying to invite a group to a topic) but they don’t show up in the my/invited/pending list, which I assume is because that is for invitations to join the forum, …

I’m running into this now, was there ever a resolution?

[image] John_Waltrip1: I’m running into this now, was there ever a resolution? Only resolution is waiting afaik or impersonating a different account and sending invites from there. Low priority @Osama can you add to your list improving the text in the OP so it explains what the actual rate l…

I was trying to invite a user group to a topic for discussion. It was the first time I’ve used this feature, so no notifications had previously gone out. I can workaround by upping the max users per group mention and @mention the group in the message, though group invite would be cleaner.

"Invites are rate limited." What does this mean?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 27, 2017, 3:58pm 2

To avoid looking like spam, Discourse limits how many times you can annoy someone inviting them to join the community.

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"Invites are rate limited." What does this mean?

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