Flood protection, is it necessary?

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Is this necessary? I can respond to a few posts in under 60 seconds, why should those who can efficiently respond to threads be punished by this message and be forced to wait to post messages > 60 seconds apart?
 

Giby

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It's not every 60sec, accually you can only post once every minute so if you post at 2:30 you have to wait for 2:31 to post again.
 

Average Joe

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Master Giby:
It's not every 60sec, accually you can only post once every minute so if you post at 2:30 you have to wait for 2:31 to post again.
60 seconds = 1 minute
 

Giby

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I mean if your post was at 2:30and50sec you could post again at 2:31and 13sec. That's the way it works for me.

<small>[ June 05, 2003, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Master Giby ]</small>
 

FeelGood

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flood protection was off for a while, and things were good, but the amount of idiots that have frequented the boards over the past few weeks have probably led the admins to set up some preventative measures.

Flood control used to be 90 secs...

that was hell.
 

Magician

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I can imagine the horror if people like FWFSS, Jet Li, or others like them are allowed to post without the flood protection...scary. annoyed
 

Devil_Gans

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Personally i prefer it to be 120 secs.How about that mods? :D

<small>[ June 05, 2003, 01:15 PM: Message edited by: Devil_Gans ]</small>
 
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qube

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God I hate flood protection. Is it my fault that I have so much to say blow_top
 

Spike Spiegel

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I really hate it when I'm replying to PMs. Two suggestions:

Apply FP to those that are known to abuse it. Let everyone free until someone abuses it. Only problem is we've had random bitches just start an account and post TONS of shit right off the bat. Sucks.

At the very least, turn it off for PMs. I mean, Jesus, we're not going to "flood" PMs, will we?

Spike
 

zorro

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yes when you have cable and get on for the first time in the night before you go to bed to respond to a few things it's hell waiting the whole damn time. it's just too much. Escpecially the ones on pm's when I'm working on two deals at once
 

rarehero

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it doesnt really seem to keep most people from spamming.
but whatever.
i m fine with the flood protection.
it doesnt ever really bother me.
 

The Auction Sniper

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You'd think they could at least disable it for Private Messages. It's not like it can publicly annoy everyone, and if the recipient doesn't like it, they can simply put the person on their ignore list.
 

NeoDragoN

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we.ve had this many times before and i think 60 seconds is fine, but i do agree about it being taken off for PM's but it dose'nt bother me that much.
 
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