[#103128] The administrator has limited the number of new posts you can submit within a short time frame. Please wait 60 seconds before replying or posting a new topic.

anyone else find this anoying?

Yes! Every other forum does 30 seconds, or 15 seconds. Not 60! But oh well, I guess it stops people from making stupid posts in a short time. Really gives people time to think about them. Plus, if there were no limit, everyone here would have over a thousand posts already.

I do sometimes when I jump from commenting in here (CD) to commenting in the Fallout section and I have to wait, patience is not a trait of mine !

I already have thousands of posts.

Anyway, it's more of a measure to help maintain the number of posts in a short while. It doesn't really stop stupid posts from being posted.

To know thyself, is but a noble act.

So... am I with stupid today, or is stupid with you?

:P

Use fast reply. That way you can compose your new post while waiting for the timer to expire.

You obviously weren't here when it was 200 seconds :ahhh:

huh... now here's an idea..

I've been using notepad to pre-compose new posts all this time.






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The flood control is a necessary evil, it helps to slow spammers of all types and enables the mods to sort them out before they cause too much destruction. It doesn't stop them from posting stupid posts but as we don't suffer from flood control we can work quicker than they can. It is also enabled for the search as apparently that can hammer the servers much more than posts do.

At the moment with some forums being so busy 60 seconds seems to be ideal.

I don't mind the flood control on posting, it's on searches where it's annoying (and inexplicable).

Edit: Wait, is it gone now? Yay.

Heh, I hadn't noticed that - I have just tried searching with my alt and there does not seem to be a flood control on searches.

Indeed. Search queries immediately impact the database.

Yea I kind of figured out that fast reply doesn't get affected by the flood control. At least it seems that way, I haven't really paid attention enough to do an experiment..

I don't have a problem with it, although it does sacrifice a great deal of time from my life. Not that I have anything better to do if I have time to browse these forums, and Fallout forums have been quiet lately. Unfortunate.

I don't have a problem with it either. It makes you think about what you're writing, and gives you an opportunity to check for silly typos and errors before hitting "post".

Yeah, it's been a regular source of irritation for years now, but they won't change it (though it was fun when it went the other way, about 300 seconds IIRC at the time FO3 was released: the forums were being trolled and spammed by another site, but it struck me as a rather punitive measure against everyone else.) Although 10-15 seconds would do the job as effectively without the annoyance factor, 60 is what we're stuck with.

Although I understand other people not having problems with it, I don't find it fun: my mind doesn't multi-task and the wait is frustrating. Still, it does seem that the flood-control on searching has been reduced, which is nice: although it's a bigger load, since only logged-in users can search (AFAIK) even a minimal amount of flood control should prevent a denial-of-service thing happening.

I don't love it but I don't hate it either the only positive is that it does stop spammers posting 100 posts in 100 seconds.

When I'm in help mode in the Hardware/Software sections, it's a pain in the ass. It limits my ability to help.

Other than that, I don't really post enough that it effects me to frequently.

P.S.

And yes, it's been worse in the past, be happy it's only 60 seconds.

It's certainly a better restriction than some forums have. The Steam forums, for instance, have the exact same thing and also have the same cooldown on reporting posts, as well as searches. Now, the former I can live with, having been a regular here since January, so I'm used to it, but the latter two just seem pointless.

60 seconds is nothing compared to 200. :sadvaultboy:

Lol I remember when it was 90 seconds. We had a huge wave of spammers.

Daddy, where were YOU when the post limit was 200 seconds?

There was a 200 second limit!? I don't think I could handle that.. :cryvaultboy:

The limit's fluctuated up and down a lot. If you wanted to talk about bad, it was only, IIRC, 15 seconds at one point, but when combined with a "10-quotes-per-post" limit (not sure if it's still here; I assume it is) it made it particularly painful when responding to a tech thread required an average of 10+ posts. So it took a while to write them all up, and then a bit of time to wait for the cooldown before I could post each subsequent part. (and it's not like these individual posts were short, either; they typically ranged at 5,000+ words each) Now think of making 2,000+ posts that way.

At any rate, with luck the cooldown timer will be lowered again... Or (unlikely) they'd take the suggestion that's been given since they first implemented flood control, and "tier" it for different accounts. One can safely assume that the multi-year-old patriachs and arch-patriarchs aren't likely to be spammers, but brand-new joiners might be the highest-risk for that.

While post flood-control was something that could be tolerated, (necessary evil and all that) SEARCH flood-control was always a hair-puller in how frustrating it was. Especially when you made a typo in a search term. I always felt that the control for that should be more coarse: i.e, such as "5 searches in 5 minutes," rather than "1 search in 1 minute."

I was very happy when the search flood control was reduced to 5 seconds.