Ratelimits

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This is a issue dedicated to discuss the ratelimit system before we tell the user they need to pay for the uploading.

Transaction fee equation

Since we're using blockchain-based billing and ratelimiting, The initial equation for the transactions are:

• The Base Transaction Fee (this is the network and gas fee for the network from NEAR or ETH).
• Commission rate (2.5%)
• IPFS storage fee (5%)

This equation would allow us to give a insight for the next part: which is providing a good rate limit for people.

Quotas

Providing quotas is something we need to do to conserve resources and as a way to deny bad actors a way to circumvent the system.

Users are required to sign in via Reddit OAuth to upload to the site, and we will give them the following quotas:

• 5 daily posting allowance and 35 weekly posting allowance.
• Unlimited allowance for creating collections based on existing published art.

Our main focus here is the daily and weekly posting allowance. Since we're doing a rather freemium, PAYG-style service, we want to keep the price as sane as 0.000200ETH or similar.

I'm open for suggestions so if you got a better model for the quotas let me know.

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Partially implemented in 9e5b5bd

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We've also moved the restriction to model to a donation model instead of Pay as You Go. This should allow the people to give us a pat in the back for what we're doing.

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Instead of enforcing a quota, we're just going for a size limit for the images in another issue.