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I'm planning some code that will prevent flooding for a project I'm working on. I'm wondering, how do you determine what interval of time is necessary to wait in between actions?

I've seen this anywhere from a few seconds, to a few minutes, to daily limits depending on the application.Thoughts?

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What you need to do is run some test cases. What could a user possible do, how much and how fast. Then once you know which use cases would use the most actions you know your limit is there and you can add a small bit of padding on top so a regular user wouldn't run into it.

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