Quick Question- The Waiting Before Posting

[Hammie Heart]

Hi there! Just a quick question.

Sometimes I will try to post a comment and a little pop up will come up saying "Wait _ seconds before posting." Why does it give me this some days but not others? And why is it a thing at all?

 

[Maz]

I don't know, I haven't had that. Maybe you're only allowed to post every 6 seconds or something. I'll check it out.

 

[Daisy]

Many forums only allow you to comment every 10/20/30 seconds or so to limit how much spammers or bots can impact the boards. Because sometimes bots will spam forums with a post every second or so and it can really be overwhelming.

I get it occasionally but I haven't noticed it happening on some days but not others. I'm not sure why that would be. It might just because you're posting quicker on some days?

 

[Lovelyness]

I get it if I try to post one comment quickly after another...just to stop spamming and bots I guess

 

[elusive]

I get it quite a lot & had just assumed it was a “I am not a robot” type of thing.

 

[Hammie Heart]

Well, thank you! But I am certainly not a robot, nor scammer! Some days I have many notifications and I post a comment them move on the next one, and so on and so forth. But I don't do it that fast... I don't think...

And Maz, sometimes I has me wait 30 seconds! Isn't that crazy?

 

[Zara]

Could it be a wifi thing. Maybe your device is just pausing whilst it uploads?

 

[Hammie Heart]

Nope. I've got all of my bars! This is so frustrating! I just had to wait 14 seconds to post this!!!!!

 

[Maz]

When you say you had to wait 14 seconds to post that last post, what did you do immediately before it?

 

[Maz]

I've checked the settings and it's called a "flood check". As mentioned above, it's a setting to prevent spammers "flooding" a forum. I think it shouldn't happen too much because people usually read something before posting or replying rather than just posting one message straight after another. Maybe if you started a few new threads all at once it might kick in.

 

[Maz]

Hammie Heart - could it be when doing the games posts? ie just typing one word and then going to type on another post? ie quick posting. I don't think it would happen otherwise.

 

[Lovelyness]

Hammie Heart - could it be when doing the games posts? ie just typing one word and then going to type on another post? ie quick posting. I don't think it would happen otherwise.

It happens most for me on word association game followed closely by Keep one change one game (or vice versa)