In an effort to curb cheating, Foursquare has a rule in place that you can’t check in to more than three venues over a 15 minute period or more than 30 venues in a single day. If you violate either rule, you’ll see this message:
Whoa, that’s a lot of checkins! To keep it fair, there are no points or badges for rapid-fire checkins. Stay and relax for a minute!
Before this rule went into effect, people were able to drive down the street and check in to every venue they passed.
There are occasionally legitimate checkins that get flagged by this rule, but as long as you’re aware of the rule you can usually time yourself to keep from triggering it (i.e., check in to your first venue as soon as you arrive and your fourth as you are leaving).
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#1 by jan van unnik on May 6, 2010 - 6:08 am
Effective rule! Maybe too effective. Ive been waiting for 8 hours and still got this message 5x today. Every check in had a 15 minute interval… up and till now ive gained no points, lets hope Ill not loose my n1 leaderbord position due to this…
#2 by A on August 30, 2010 - 6:21 pm
I dislike the effectiveness of it also. I just traveled to NYC over the weekend. I didn’t earn points for some venues because we went to a LOT of places. We should be rewarded for traveling a lot. I was also on my way home and got the Whoa! message even though I had been on a plane for two hours then tried to check in at the airport. It’s so irritating!!!
#3 by Wietse on November 4, 2010 - 4:12 am
True, Rapid fire sucks maybe better to change distance to 100 or 50 meters to avoid drive by checkins…..
#4 by dena renee on December 1, 2010 - 11:10 am
this is so unfair when you have legitimate check-ins that happen more often than 15 minutes. for example, I’m Christmas shopping in a MALL. i was only at the mall for 2 hours yesterday, but def checked into about 7 stores, 1 restaurant, 1 coffee shop, not to mention the mall itself!!
#5 by Courtney on December 20, 2010 - 10:52 am
This rule is completely ridculous in some places. For example: theme parks. You check into the park, the ride, the general area, where you eat… I’ve been getting this rapid fire thing for 2 days for legitimate checkins. They should disable this for parks and major metropolitan areas.
#6 by Frank on January 11, 2011 - 1:45 pm
Stupid rule, I have been unable to accumulate points ALL MORNING and have only checked into about 4 places. WTF?
#7 by Wolf on April 14, 2011 - 7:28 am
let’s get serious foursquare doesn’t have a handle on this with any luck go go away I hate people releasing software the don’t know how to program and doesn’t work right foursquare is gone as a possibility for this let’s hope another program comes out n does this right foursquare is being programmed buy a bunch of stupid 2 year olds
#8 by Maenie on May 22, 2011 - 1:13 pm
I understand why they have this rule, but I think it needs amending. I live in London, but went to New York on holiday. I wasn’t able to earn points or badges for all my check-ins. 30 check-ins may be a lot on an average day, but when you are sightseeing or go somewhere new, you will tend to check in more.
I think this needs to be changed to average over a week/rolling 7 days.
Note: You can delete some of your rapid fire check-ins from the history list on http://www.foursquare.com