Why are comments limited to every 20 seconds, when bandwidth is supposedly limited by Steem Power?
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This is something I've been wondering about for a while now. Almost every account that I've ever looked at on steemd has had probably greater than 95% bandwidth available, but I'm guessing almost everyone who actually uses Steemit regularly has run into the 20 second limit for posting comments. It just seems to be completely counter to the whole idea of rate limiting user bandwidth based on vested Steem Power.
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I am not sure, but in my opinion this would be an breathing time. By the way you raise interesting point, i am also eager to read the actual reason. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for reading.
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Its an issue I've encountered myself, in my second week of Steemit
I posted here the article and got some interesting advice:
https://steemit.com/foodphotography/@meonline/steemit-bandwidth-restriction-can-anyone-explain-why-i-got-locked-out
The most interesting one is on how to actually check to see your available bandwidth at ANY TIME:
"You can check for yourself your own bandwidth by going to this address:
https://steemd.com/@YOURUSERNAME"
Hope you are enlighten now :)
Cheers,
Adrian
GOOD TO KNOW :)
Bandwidth consumed me! It breaks my nerves.
I face problems every day, and sometimes I do not even share the article for a day.😡🤬
I hope it starts working better for you!
I hope it is good thank you!
I'm not totally sure this is the case, but it is my understanding that SP acts as shares in a company. Because of this, the more SP we commit to the platform, the greater our available resources get, bandwidth in this case.
However, the posting time limit is not related to an available resource and acts as an anti spam system instead, protecting not only bandwidth but also the quality of the content that can be shared and the platform integrity. Without this limit it would be quite simple to create bots that could make the comment section a total nightmare or even clog the whole network.
You're correct, but even with the limit I could still delegate my SP to 100 different bot accounts and spam the network with comments. The point is that it's relatively expensive to commit spam, which was the whole reason for tying bandwidth, voting power, etc... to SP. Thanks for reading.
Sure that would be a way to spam even with the time limit as it is. Without the time limit it would be even worse. Even powerful accounts are somehow limited on how much they can drop new content, which leads me to think, how often is someone able to post something relevant?
Thank you, Trogdor.
I agree that it doesn't make much sense. In his most recent post @anyx talked about how cheetah keeps running into the 20 second limit and runs hours behind sometimes.
Yeah I saw that. It's just crazy because I could easily (relatively) make 1000 different accounts and post 50 times a second until the bandwidth's depleted, but with my single account I'll never approach my bandwidth limit. Actually from the response I'm hearing, it would be an interesting idea if we were able to delegate bandwidth while retaining voting power. I would absolutely do that for all of these low SP users who want to use Steemit more but run into bandwidth issues.
I agree with what they say. there is no sense of bandwidth. The transaction is volumey but you know you are having trouble with the tape in the process. And you can not put a comment on it for 20 seconds. While you are experiencing a tape problem, you want to discard your comment as soon as possible, but the system does not allow it. I experienced tape problems last Wednesday. That day the full bandwidth problem is improving. My review says bandwidth again. I had a full 16-hour band problem on Wednesday. After I got angry. This is really ridiculous. They have to solve this problem. Thank you for referring to this topic. @trogdor
It is definitely a little frustrating sometimes!
Hello friend, you're right, I have that problem since morning. steemit uses the "bandwidth Remaining" to avoid in a certain way the people who publish at every moment, the more level you have and the higher your steem power the bandwidth is higher. According to what you investigate, there is no need to worry because the bandwidth can be monitored, and after decreasing, it is optimized or recovered in a certain period of time. greetings with friend success
Thanks for reading, I hope you don't run into any issues anymore!
I think the 20 sec limitation is very good , those are comments this is not a chat
if you want to comment about a post ready it first and think a bit , this take 20 sec otherwise we will be getting spam spam and ho yes spam...
Thanks for reading!
I know I have run into the problem of exceeding my bandwidth quite a few times in the past week.
I guess I'm leaving too many comments?
Still not sure how everything works here, but I'm slowly learning.
JGV
The bandwidth is related to your Steem Power, so if you have lower SP you're not allowed to post as much content to the network. You can check your remaining bandwidth at steemd.com/@jgvinstl
Thank you! Gives me some stats that help.
I think the bandwidth is a completely silly system. I use the site for 15 hours a day. The next day I'm just looking at 1 hour and then giving the bandwidth error. it is not clear what my bandwidth is going to be. @trogdor
It would be awesome if there were a way to delegate bandwidth, without delegating voting power... I would definitely do that for cases like yours were you run into bandwidth issues but then I would still get to use my voting power. I wonder if anyone has thought of that...
Yes I totally agree with you, even though they keep saying to Power up... I started doing so. One minute am having 18mb total bandwidth and the next am getting bandwidth errors, I go check my bandwidth only to see - 54kb of 180kb... Errm like how did I go from 18mb to 180kb. So it's really not stable nor can it be counted upo. @dee-y over and out.
Am guessing it's a counter measure to decrease sporadic spamming comments by spam accounts. @dee-y over and out.
Thanks for reading!