「トピック作成のレート制限」という設定は、レート制限の下でトピックに対して非常に理にかなっています。
しかし、PM（プライベートメッセージ）もトピックと同じ扱いになっているため、ユーザーがトピックを投稿した直後にPMを送信したり、複数の相手に連続してPMを送ったりする際に問題が発生します。これは最近、私のユーザーの一部を困惑させ、PMではなく投稿を選んでしまうという悪い習慣につながっています。
PMは、この設定の意図しない対象のようです。この設定はPMではなく、トピックのみに適用されるべきではないでしょうか？
The default is 15 seconds for a new topic, and 5 seconds for a reply/post. Topics and PMs are treated in the same way, and typically creation of a new topic or PM will take more than 15 seconds. In six years and across a broad number of communities I’ve never received a complaint from a user over hitting this limit, have you raised your defaults?
Sounds like these users are rapidly copy pasting the same content and sending it to other users? They would have to be doing it quite rapidly to hit the rate limits.
Our setting for a new topic is extreme compared with that (900 sec) - I had just assumed that was the default and that there was a good reason for it.
@pacharanero - is there any reason we can’t drop back closer to the default?
Yes I have no problem changing the setting. I didn’t (knowingly) change it, although we have been on Discourse for nearly 5 years, so I may have set it and forgotten. The other possibility is that the default might have been different way back when? We were on Discourse when it was still in beta.
Reverting to the default should address this. I don’t recall the default ever being that high; maybe you had problems with spammers early on?