um....wha? Should I be, like, blushing?
Isn't it possible that the time delay is there to prevent flooding of posts causing the internet to crash? We can't have that....
Time between posts.
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FWIW, I manage a phpBB-driven board elsewhere, and we did get flood-posted once. Basically, the delay between posts serves two purposes:
1: keep people with annoying spammy auto-submit scripts from flooding the board (a 30-second delay makes the difference between seeing two posts a minute versus hundreds, and makes it that much easier to clean up, esp. since people using these scripts don't waste their time if they can't send hundreds a minute);
2: keep people from posting in a flamewar without giving a few moment's thought first.
Then again, I preview my posts before submitting, so what do I know?
[on preview] what fine words I have written. I'm not changing a thing. Heh.
1: keep people with annoying spammy auto-submit scripts from flooding the board (a 30-second delay makes the difference between seeing two posts a minute versus hundreds, and makes it that much easier to clean up, esp. since people using these scripts don't waste their time if they can't send hundreds a minute);
2: keep people from posting in a flamewar without giving a few moment's thought first.
Then again, I preview my posts before submitting, so what do I know?
[on preview] what fine words I have written. I'm not changing a thing. Heh.
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I don't think anybody's complaining about the delay between posting different messages. It's the fact that you have to wait to edit the existing message that you just posted. I don't know if it's a bug in phpBB or a badly configured setting, though. Either way, very annoying.MintyHandy wrote:FWIW, I manage a phpBB-driven board elsewhere, and we did get flood-posted once. Basically, the delay between posts serves two purposes:
1: keep people with annoying spammy auto-submit scripts from flooding the board (a 30-second delay makes the difference between seeing two posts a minute versus hundreds, and makes it that much easier to clean up, esp. since people using these scripts don't waste their time if they can't send hundreds a minute);
2: keep people from posting in a flamewar without giving a few moment's thought first.
Then again, I preview my posts before submitting, so what do I know?