Orkut is getting secure, in other words ’stricter’ day by day. To control spam activities, it has limited the number of scraps, messages, testimonials, community topics or polls that a user can perform in a certain span of time. Now, if you exceed their limit, few of your account features will get limited and you won’t be able to access those features. If you start sending scraps to a person more than the limit, scrapping feature in your account will get limited and you will get a notice like “Posting to this user has been temporarily disabled”. Let’s find it’s solution.
Another examples of excess use limitations are Adding friends service is temporarily disabled, Adding of comments temporarily disabled etc.
If you are busy in conversation with a friend and sending her scraps quickly (may be as a part of conversation, not necessarily spamming), after certain no of scraps, Orkut will ask you to fill up Captcha (word verification process) before sending further scraps. Remember, it does not matter if your scrap is having a live link or not, since you have crossed the limit, you have to fill up the Captcha forms. Now if you still continue sending scraps, Orkut will disable scrap feature on your account and will display a restriction notice like Posting to this user has been temporarily disabled.
Though this problem is not permanent, it’s annoying. Generally it stays active for 7-8 hours and then you can start sending scraps to that person as usual. The best way to get rid of this problem is to log out of Orkut, wait for 8 hours, clear browser cookies and then sign in to Orkut. Doing this will might get your account limitations withdrawn faster.
If you want to have a really long chat with someone, try using Gtalk on Orkut. You won’t have any limitation problems on your Orkut account. Here are some links related to account limitation that you might want to follow :
Personally, I don’t feel it’s the appropriate step taken by Orkut to prevent spamming. They have a tolerance limit of 50 scraps per hour (yes, your scrapping feature will get disabled if you try to send more than 50 scraps in one hour), but what if you are having more than 100 friends and want to inform them all about certain matter?
They should make it 250/hour at least, after all this place is for social networking and keeping a capping feature is like encouraging someone to do murder and then arresting him for doing such crime. Crazy Orkut, really!
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