Lower the post waiting time?

[Rainbow_Dash]

I have noticed that there is a minimum waiting time between posts before you may post another. I am a reasonably fast typist, no where near the fastest but this "Feature" seems to be slowing me down quite a bit. I often sit and wait for 40-50 seconds just to post. Perhaps it can be lowered to 10-20 seconds? I don't imagine this is taking stress off of the server but instead adding more by having to keep track of how long it's been since your last post. I think that reducing it or making it only become active after, say 20 posts within an hour would be an improvement to the site.

 

[Ralle]

I would like to know if anyone else sees this as a limiting factor.

 

[InfernalTater]

I do, Ralle. Oftentimes I log on and want to rate a bunch of resources. Sometimes there will be a lot of icons that I haven't seen, and I want to comment and rate them all. It only takes me about 30 seconds to check the icon, see what it's supposed to be, come up with my opinion of it, type it, and rate it. Then I have to wait 30 more seconds for the next post, making it take twice as long. So, when I want to rate a dozen icons, I have to wait 12 minutes, rather than just rating them all in a few minutes.

It's not urgent that this be changed, but I do think it would be convenient if the limit was changed to something like 30 seconds per post & 30 posts per hour, whatever's hit first.

 

[Sorceress]

Remove the post limits.. Or atleast lower them.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Yes please, this can be very annoying when you constantly get moderation pms and you have to respond in threads because of the.

 

[Ralle]

I have halved the delay now. 30 seconds.

 

[rulerofiron99]

I would like to know if anyone else sees this as a limiting factor.

Yes.

Sometimes when on the WEHZ, several post in a row will be simple fixes that take a few seconds to write.

30 seconds should be fine.

 

[InfernalTater]

I have halved the delay now. 30 seconds.

Great! I'm sure a lot of people will be grateful.

30 seconds is long enough that a spammer would get bored of waiting after a few posts, but short enough that people who simply type fast won't mind waiting a few seconds, since they would actually care about what they're posting.

It's a good middle-ground.

 

[Ralle]

Thank you for bringing this up.

 

[Squiggy]

First off, I didn't mind the 60s limit but it's also fine now.
Secondly, just a short annex: People use scripts by now; they set the posting interval to 31s after reading this thread.
Those what you call spammers are just people wanting to boast with their time wasted on the internet.

 

[Vladadamm]

Thought it was 30 seconds before. It dordn't happen me often to see this message, but it's still annoying.

Removing it wouldn't be good, cause of accidental double posts (buggy connection/browser, user that click twice on the button, etc...)

I think that 30 seconds should be fine now, maybe 15 seconds, but not less than that.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I have halved the delay now. 30 seconds.

This is good as sometimes I hit the limit because of writing posts in parallel.

 

[Rainbow_Dash]

O_O, my suggestion was taken seriously... :O THANKS RALLE!!!