/questions/add of StackExchange app gives nonsense response

Question

When I run https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/create-question from the doc page and from my app. The response is sometimes nonsense:

{
    "error_id": 407,
    "error_message": "You cannot perform this action for another 48 seconds",
    "error_name": "write_failed"
}

What is the reason for this?

Answer 1

You are probably having this error because of throttles (most likely per-method throttles) that are used to prevent abusive usage. Have a look at related documentation page in order to learn more about throttles. Normally you should wait for a specified period which is returned in the backoff field of the previous response.