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Allow exceptions to the Echo limit
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Allow Administrators to bypass the Echo Limit

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@Ilovemydoodle2 50 is the limit of Echo itself; see en:Template:Ping#More than 50 names specified. We definitely don't want vandals go around spamming these things and flood hundred people's notifications.

Ilovemydoodle2 renamed this task from Pinging user fails if page containing ping has too many other pings on it to Allow exceptions to the Echo limit.Jun 12 2022, 4:01 PM
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There's still a missing rational of "why"...

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50 is both an anti-abuse measure and to prevent accidents when people accidentally transclude pages that would trigger a large number of pings. To notify a large group of users, we have better tools like sitenotices, watchlist notices, MassMessage, etc.