to give everyone else a chance to ask some!

In the past, a few people flooded the Answerbag airways with questions for the sole purpose of padding their total "Number of Questions Asked". That sounds harmless, even enlightening, doesn't it? Read on, my friend. Users perceived the barrage as disruptive and unsettling. And it was. Why? Nobody enjoyed seeing an entire page of "Who was the first president?" followed by, "Who was the second president?" and "Who was the third president?" all the way up to, "Who is the 43rd president?" The first and most flagrant violations of the then-unwritten rule took place in July and August, 2005. Roughly seventy-five pages of questions on the origins of individual Russian, Japanese and Korean surnames, followed by a dozen pages on gaming strategies for every game in existence - most known only to the questioner. You can see the effects yourself. Go to answerbag's home page, look for "Unanswered Questions" (lower right side) and navigate to July/August 2005....Seek. -- You will find. Maybe you missed Recipe-O-Rama Days. That wasn't annoying so much as it helped us all gain ten pounds last summer. After reading a page or so of, "Can someone give me a recipe for chocolate fudge?" "How about a recipe for chicken marsala?" "How do you make a great burger?" the sunflower and tahini poppy seeds of suggestion took their toll - house cookie. (grin) Sorry! Couldn't resist that sitting Duck al'Orange. Munchies aside - it was annoying as all get-out, especially considering all the presidential questions could have been consolidated into: "Can someone give me a list of all the US Presidents and the years they served?" Other users' questions got buried - and ignored - in between the terms of Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce. A fascinating, but unlikely, spot for an important question to be seen and answered. And let's face it. If knowing the name of the thirty-second president is something you must discover in the next five minutes, or life as we know it, will end, here's a tip: Google. Save the world. In summation, the reason for the Q limit is - a few people took advantage of, and abused, the system for selfish reasons, and it downgraded the site. The limit is an effort to stop it from happening again. UPDATE: Feb 2007 - in light of the recent spate of questions on the origins of the upper and lower-case letters of the alphabet (certainly the hot topic in MY town, LOL); the numerous individual questions on the details of all fifty states; and similar others, I guess there's always a work-around.

just to allow others a chance to ask and more time for you to answer. After an amount of time (not sure how long, an hour maybe) you will be able to post again

You must not have kids

Because most questions have been asked before. Some ad nauseum.

Huh

cause most people are capable to give 5 answers only every 15 minutes. eventually, your questions need to be answered, right?

Have you ever been on here when the spamming starts. They will ask questions (all the same or attention getting) they will let them. As it is they can ask 20 an hour. Without this they might be asking 200 an hour. Do you really want that?

AB claims it is because they want to give everyone a chance but the truth is that it is to prevent Spammers from flooding the site!!