[Developers] query API - overuse and sanctions?

[Jason Douglas]

If you hit a rate limit (which is pretty high for reads), you get an  
error not bad data.  That would be a pretty cruel trick.  ;-)

Can you post an example query?

-jason


On May 8, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Michael Callaghan wrote:

> I may through some clumsy use of Actionscript have fired a high-ish  
> number (several thousand?) of queries over a very short period of  
> time yesterday.  Might this have led to some sanction/block on my IP  
> address (xx.21.175.192), as it now appears that any name query  
> (however well-behaved) returns the same id (although other queries  
> work as normal)?  If so, offering my reassurance that I am a bona  
> fide (and registered) user with no wish to bring down the wonderful  
> Freebase servers, could any such sanction now be lifted?  If not,  
> then what on earth is going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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