That timer is for flood control. It is intended to discourage posting excessive numbers of messages or using the forum like a chat room. Last month a new member flooded the forum with 75 useless one-line messages in less than 2 hours (the messages and the member were removed). The flooding controls help slow that down.
To help a little I have set the timer back to 3 minutes. It's hard to imagine a situation when you would need to post 2 messages in less than 3 minutes so that seems like a reasonable number.
Don
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