Pacing and the governor
The limits that decide whether you still have an account next month — daily caps, log-normal spacing, the warm-up ramp, rest blocks and the hard stops.
If you read one article here, make it this one. Everything else is features. This is the part that decides whether you still have an account next month.
The defaults are working practice, not a theoretical margin. Leave them alone until you have a reason.
The defaults
| Limit | Default | What it protects you from |
|---|---|---|
| Daily limit | 50 requests a day (100 ceiling) | Volume that reads as automation |
| How often | One request every 3–5 minutes | A flat timer, which is the one shape human behaviour never has |
| Warm-up | 10 a day, easing to full over a week | A fresh install sending its whole quota on day one |
| Rest blocks | 30–45 minutes after every 18 requests | Working without pause, which people do not do |
| Between messages | 4–10 minutes, 40 a day | Outbound messages being the most spam-sensitive thing an account does |
| Wait after accept | A delay before the intro goes out | A message three seconds after an accept — nobody watches their friend list that closely |
Why the spacing is drawn, not fixed
Requests are spaced from a log-normal distribution, not a flat interval. A fixed gap is trivially detectable and it is the giveaway that no amount of volume tuning fixes. Real activity clusters and gaps; the distribution reproduces that shape.
The warm-up matters most on a new account
Easing from 10 a day to your full limit over a week is not caution for its own sake. A brand-new install sending fifty requests on day one is the most detectable thing this product could do.
Hard stops
A run halts and does not retry on any of these:
- a checkpoint
- a captcha
- being signed out
- a temporary-block notice
- the Add friend control not responding
- more than one Add friend control on the page
No retry loop, no "try once more". If Facebook is telling you something, the answer is to stop and read it.
If you raise the numbers
The ceiling is 100 a day because that is where the shape of the thing changes, not because 101 breaks. Raising your limit raises your risk, and the risk lands on your account, not ours. If you do raise it, do it slowly and watch for checkpoints.
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