# AIM Warning Levels

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-warning-levels/190818>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 25, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-warning-levels/190818 "2003-07-25T06:45:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-warning-levels/190818/1 "2003-07-25T06:45:43Z")

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Does anybody know how the pesky warning levels work on AIM?  
How is it sometimes you can get warned and only be bumped up to 5% and others up to 20% (even when the user does it non-anonymously)? How does it sometimes go down quickly, and others take forever to go down?

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aim-warning-levels/190818/2 "2003-07-25T06:51:10Z")

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the warning level rise, from what I can tell, is based on how many messages you’ve sent the user warning you in the last x number of minutes.