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BroadHopper
11-23-2005, 04:10 PM
The system tells me I have to wait 300 seconds between posts. Am I doing something wrong????
ITD
11-23-2005, 06:35 PM
Just happened to me too. Must be a reason, but it is a pain in the neck.
Steve
11-23-2005, 10:42 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, 08:06 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, 01:48 PM
And there you have it. :)