Flood Control Message
 

I received this message for the first time today.

You can only post 1 message a minute? This was weird b/c it was my first post of my session!?! Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes!! I do not care for this feature personally, but if it helps others... well fine! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

It saved me from an inadvertent double post yesterday.

Doc, I can see why you wouldn't like this... With you being a member on this board for just over 2 years, and with over 20,000 posts on this board, that averages out to about 27 posts a day!

That "feature" caught me the other day, when I posted two replies within 60 seconds. (Not just on two different threads; in two different forums, even! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif )

Although it got slightly in the way, it was no big deal to wait a few seconds, and it doesn't happen very often under legitimate, non-accidental usage patterns.

Hey, maybe this thingee is a GOOD thingee. I have definately noticed a decrease in the number of duplicate posts lately. Nice job, web guys.

MisterNice

sorry just a test message.

The Flood control is in place to catch duplicate posts when members accidentally hit the reply a few times in a row. No attempt to limit the number of posts by member. We choose 60 seconds as we thought it would allow the maxinum time for a server to react even under heavy stress.

Randy, this is a great idea. We are all tired of the duplicate posts. Perhaps you may wish to lenghten the time to 2 minutes as many of our members are on slow connections.

Actually, I'd actually suggest going down to 30 secs! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif The reason I note this is that when things are really bad, (really, REALLY slow, and that is fortunately very rare), is when we appear to most need it, it but when it will not do the job very well since the lock up yields no feedback and one will very likely press return again - and again. We have seen this in the past when 5-10 posts were made over a 30 - 50 min period. So even 5-10 mins would presumably result in little additional gain - yet it will possibly help to discourage too much posting by any individual, in too short a time!

The real trick, IMHO, is simply to press the return key just once! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Glad to see it has been quietly dropped back down to the 60 sec limit, from the 90 sec stratosphere! Thanks! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Go for 30 secs, anyone?! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif