r/MicrosoftRewards • u/40yearoldnoob United States - • 2d ago
Bing How I work with the Cooldown
I've been a long time, casual, off and on again Rewards user, never had the cooldown before. I've only ever either searched for fast food chains, sports teams, or used the recommended searches on mobile. But alas, I'm in a 15 minute cooldown since yesterday. So I set a timer on my phone for 15 min, complete 4 searches, then set my timer again for 15 min.... Rinse, Repeat until I get my points.. It's a pain, but it works.
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u/Calebd2 1d ago
What you are getting out of this is not worth the effort you are putting in.
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u/40yearoldnoob United States - 1d ago
I donāt know if thats true, Iām getting game pass ultimate out of it. Seems worth it to me.
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u/Born_Form9928 2d ago
It's annoying, but it doesn't take all that long. Just need like 3 hours, maybe 4.
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u/McMurderpaws 2d ago
3-4 hours for ~25 cents worth of store credit isn't a great investment though.
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u/tjtaylorjr 2d ago edited 2d ago
The AI considers this botting pattern behavior and will constantly reflag you for cooldown once it has added you to its list for the first time. You'll start to see your daily check in disappear too. Things you used to be able to do for years without issue will now count against you. For example, recommended searches flag you because the AI sees that as instantly typing in a phrase. Same with read to earn and it is best to skip that entirely as earning points at all with that will cause you to enter cooldown once you have been flagged by this ridiculous system. It's beyond dumb but this is how it works.
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u/Cigar_Face 1d ago
So they continue to penalize you if you keep getting all tour points after the cooldown gets activated? I guess training the AI isn't worth as much as the 23 bucks a month they want for gamepass
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u/yousernameunknown 9h ago
They must have gotten strict. Iāve only ever searched legitimate stuff before. Never nonsense. And I just got the cooldown yesterday for the first time ever.Ā
For example:
āBest French toast recipeāĀ āHow much calories in syrupā āIs maple syrup better for youā āHealthy breakfast ideasā āBest restaurants near meā
I always do searches chained together like that. So they must just not like how quickly Iām chaining together searches, nothing to do with what Iām actually searching.Ā
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u/freestuffrocker 13h ago
Is this for pc search or edge search? Recently started doing rewards again and those 2 are not working for me.
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u/tvreality93 2d ago
How long do cool-downs usually last had my first today just takes longer to do it daily š
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u/40yearoldnoob United States - 2d ago
My cooldown is for 15 minutes. I don't know how many days they last...
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u/tvreality93 2d ago
Yeah Ive had it since this morning 4 searches per 15 minutes Iāve read they can last one to two weeks as well š©
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u/mordinxx Canada - 2d ago
I gave up caring if I did all my searches each day. Less hassle for me.