They are there to prevent 'crapflooding'.
You really shouldn't believe everything I say, especially not when it's perposterous!
I just upped both of them to 3, which should be enough for most people, I think.
I can well imagine that on a rare prolific day I might submit up to five articles, three of them rapidly concocted Link Carriers. Would it be possible to tell Scoop to make an exception for a user who is very unlikely to crapflood?
You talk about separate numbers, does that mean I can have three stories in the Edit queue and three more in voting? If that's the case I suppose I can solve my rare five-story day by pushing some stories to voting directly.
Three per user as a general crapflood limit sounds good.
There's another crapflood limit that I encountered while solving that queue-limit problem. Suddenly the system told me I had exceeded the maximum number of postings per time unit, or something to that effect. I didn't feel that I had posted very much so it felt like it was set very low.
One thing that annoyed me was that it warned me against trying to post too soon, but didn't tell me when it would be safe to post again. "A few minutes" is very vague, it should say 3 or 10 or 30 or whatever time period it is.
-- Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
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