Is There A Limited Amount Of Answers You Can Answer

Is there a character limit to answers on Quora?

Yes. It's in the tens of thousands of characters right now. If it's an issue and you give us a specific example, we can raise it.

Why is there a limit on the number of answers to questions you can submit per day on Quora? I have many more answer requests waiting.

Original question: “It’s 9:00 am and I’ve reached my limit. I’m still getting requests from people to answer their questions. It’s not fair to me or them.”Slow down. You’re apparently relatively new to Quora, so let’s step back for a moment and understand how the system works. Those answer requests you’re getting are not coming from real people specifically seeking your words of wisdom. They are, instead, being generated by the Quora system to try to get more questions answered in general.The fact is (and this is not intended as an attack, just an explanation), the 63 answers you have written so far are not particularly helpful to anyone—as evidenced by the fact that in total they have garnered only 38 upvotes, way less than a single upvote per answer. In contrast, the most useful answers here can generate hundreds, or even thousands, of upvotes per answer. Most of yours are simply one sentence, often generic, sometimes just saying “I don’t know.”That kind of response might be perfectly appropriate in a person-to-person conversation, but it isn’t useful here on Quora. Instead, understand that there is no expectation at all that you need to write in response to an answer request. Many people get dozens a day, and the etiquette here is that it is not only acceptable, but expected, that you will ignore those requests…unless you have something serious and useful to say in response.In the context of Quora, “serious and useful” typically translates into an answer that is multiple paragraphs long, shows thought and care in its composition, and has typically taken at least several minutes to write (many of the Top Writers on the site can spend an hour or more on a single answer.) The intention is for questions on Quora to elicit interesting, thoughtful information that is locked up in people’s brains; it is not to get quick, one-line, ‘cocktail party’ answers.My intention is not to sound harsh, or single you out, but rather to clarify for others who may be in your same position the way this site works. Welcome to Quora, and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to your future thoughtful contributions!

What is the daily limit on the number of answers I can provide on Quora?

Per the comment thread here: it appears empirically that there is a 100-answer limit covering some time period. It is not 100% clear that the time period is 24 hours, per this subsequent comment which states that it is 12 hours. The accuracy here is also unknown as it is the report of a single user.A pertinent thought here is the question of why such a limit exists, and I would hazard that it serves two purposes:It prevents spambots from getting in more than 100 answers at a time.Of course it is possible that an individual user may be able to produce 100 quality, helpful answers within a 12 or 24 hour period of time. But such an individual, in my opinion, is a rarity in the sea of individuals contributing 100 answers a day who are doing so because they have recently discovered Quora and are penning terse two-or-three line answers. These would generally be the type of answers that Quora doesn’t prize, and so reaching the limit may serve as a form of negative reinforcement to encourage the user to go and find out more about what a Quora answer should look like.New to Quora? Want to get on board? Check out Quora Base Camp.