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This morning I got that notice. No problem. Then after a few hours I tried to rep again and 2 or 3 went through. Next time I tried I got the "24 hour too many rep" warning again. I thought the 24 hour timer actually went for 24 hours. Is something wrong or can somebody explain this to me? Many thanks.
It's a rolling 24 hours; it doesn't refresh at a set time of the day.
The system keeps track of how many reps you gave out in the 24 hours exactly preceding the moment when you try give another rep, and if it is more than the limit, you'll get the message. Once the oldest rep in those 24 hours reaches the point of being 24 hours and one minute ago, you can give another one.
kind of- just after I was given the 2nd warning I waited a few minutes and was able to rep again so something is going on. I'm assuming my 24 hour clock (oldest rep reached 24 hours and 1 minute) had started up again when I was allowed to give those 2 or 3 reps but then the 24 hour warning came on again... and then I was able to rep again. So could this mean the next oldest rep started the 24 hr clock, it was good to go again, then the next oldest rep triggered a new clock? I've gotten plenty of 24 hour warnings but never off and on like this morning. And I didn't rep from 11 last night till about 7 this morning. If you can clear it up for me without too much confusion that would be nice but I'll proceed from here and see what happens.
Thanks for your effort.
Well, I can't see the reps you've actually given, but the hypothetical situation would be something like this:
July 2 between 7:00 am and 8:00 am - gave out 3 reps
July 2 between 10:00 am and 11:00 am - gave out 10 reps
July 2 between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm - gave out 15 reps
July 2 between 10:45 pm and 11:00 pm - gave out 7 reps
You'd be at your maximum 35 reps in 24 hours time at that point.
Then by 8:00 am on July 3, the oldest three reps from the previous day would have dropped off the list, and you could give out three new ones. As soon as you give those, you're back at your maximum 35 in 24 hours.
A couple hours later, between 10 and 11 am on July 3, those ten reps would start dropping off the list, and as each one dropped off, you could give a new one. If you give out ten new reps on the morning of July 3, you'd be back at your 24-hour limit.
Then in the afternoon, you reach the point where those fifteen reps from the previous afternoon start moving past the 24-hour point. And once again, as each one drops off, you can issue a new one.
See how it works? The 24-hour period rolls forward with every minute that passes, and as soon as a rep you gave reaches the 24-hours-and-1-minute point, it drops off the list.
ABSOLUTELY clear now. Thanks so much for simplifying it for me. In fact I think that is very similar to what actually happened. For a concentrated period of time I was involved in a "lively" discussion and I was repping more than usual. I usually spread them out all over the day and night.
BTW I'd rep you but....well you know what.
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