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View submission: Lets talk about those API calls
100 queries/minute is really low for any useful bot. ~~Flairbot~~ /u/flair_helper is on probably hundreds of subs and each removal is at least 4 queries, it can't survive on the limited level
So then it's pushed to paid. At a low 1000 removals per day across all the subs it'd do 1.5M queries per year. At $12k/50M queries that's $360/year for a bot that costs subs nothing and earns no money
Tools get rate limited and charged but spammers? Can't risk rate limiting those
Comment by Sun_Beams at 06/06/2023 at 12:53 UTC
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It extends to bots with larger API calls, its in the main modnews post about it.