The title may be clunky but I hope everything clears up with more words.

What is the rule -- if there already is I obviously failed to find it -- for requests that got deleted because they went unfulfilled and then someone (be it the same or a different user) re-requesting the same file?

I'm asking, because there is a bump-limit for individual requests. But if a request expires, gets automatically deleted, and then just gets requested again -- wouldn't that defeat the purpose of such a rule? Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it.

Thank you in advance for clearing this up.

[merry60]

Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it.

Probably, yes. So relax and post your request again, the problem is not the number of requests but the number of bumps per request. A request with a high number of bumps can become unmanageable, hence the limit.