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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....

am i being baited?



edit: I dunno...



second edit: JB STRIKES AGAIN!!!!



MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!



third edit:

and thus the flaw of no delay is revealed: EDIT EDIT EDIT til you think your conscious getsit.

Generic wrote:That's kind of assy of you, RG.

I totally agree.

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.

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?

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.

There is only one such delay parameter in phpbb. It was lowered from 30 seconds to 5 seconds about a week ago.

End of discussion?*

*probably not