User blog:Blupo/Throttling Article Comments

Hello everyone,

We have decided to begin throttling article comments. In the initial stage, you will only be able to post 3 comments per hour on articles. Note that this applies for all articles, for example, if you post 3 comments on the Market, you will not be able to post any other comments on other articles for one hour. This may change if people are posting too many comments, or if we think that we can be more lenient.

The intent of this change is to limit the number of trading comments on articles. As it currently stands, there is no system for trading on the wiki, and most people use article comments. We do not want to stop people from trading, but we also can't keep up with the amount of comments being created each day.

You may be wondering how page discussion will continue if article comments are throttled. Well firstly, only article comments are affected. Talk pages and blog comments are not affected by this change. If you have any issues with a page that you need to discuss, please use that page's talk page instead of comments.

This change will go live on Monday, 3 July 2018 (PST). If you have questions and/or concerns, please leave comments on this post.