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BroadHopper · 11-23-2005, 05:10 PM

The system tells me I have to wait 300 seconds between posts. Am I doing something wrong????

ITD · 11-23-2005, 07:35 PM

Just happened to me too. Must be a reason, but it is a pain in the neck.

Steve · 11-23-2005, 11:42 PM

Sounds like the Flood Control setting of the forum is set to 5 minutes (300 seconds). That sounds kind of long, usually it's like 30 seconds. Maybe Don will lower it.

webmaster · 11-27-2005, 09:06 AM

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

Steve · 11-28-2005, 02:48 PM

And there you have it.

11-23-2005, 05:10 PM	#1
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11-23-2005, 11:42 PM	#3
Steve Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southern NH Posts: 109 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Flood control Sounds like the Flood Control setting of the forum is set to 5 minutes (300 seconds). That sounds kind of long, usually it's like 30 seconds. Maybe Don will lower it.

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11-23-2005, 07:35 PM	#2
ITD Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro, NH Posts: 2,953 Thanks: 484 Thanked 703 Times in 393 Posts	Just happened to me too. Must be a reason, but it is a pain in the neck.

11-27-2005, 09:06 AM	#4
webmaster Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 2,494 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 467 Thanked 4,031 Times in 864 Posts	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

11-28-2005, 02:48 PM	#5
Steve Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southern NH Posts: 109 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	And there you have it.