I checked my email and looked at the threads I was subscribed to and went in to post replies but on the second one it said I can only post once per minute. This isn’t a problem for me, I was just curious as to why the rule. Is this a technical issue in the DB or a way to ward off bots, or both?
It may partially be to ward off bots (I have no idea), but it’s also to prevent double posts. At one time, you couldn’t swing a dead cat on this board* without seeing double, triple or even quadruple posts (and everyone swearing they only hit Submit once).
*Why anyone would want to swing a dead cat is beyond me.
What else are you gonna do with it?
Better’n swinging a dead Kat, I’m sure you’ll agree.
I don’t know of any other board that doesn’t have this rule-does anyone else?
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Here is 100 other things you can do with it … and yes, I know; I am a sicko
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Just seemed kind of a weird rule, but I like to know the reasons for things.*
- Something about curiousity, cats, and getting dead comes to mind.
Obviously, you never had a wart needed curin’.
It’s called flood-control, and it exists to keep both bots and humans from making multiple postings in short periods of time. The advantage in keeping bots in check is obvious. Also of value is keeping humans from making multple brief, nonsensical posts. The same philosophy is what leads to booting you from chat rooms for making repetitive entries over a short period of time.
I don’t know of any message board I’ve posted on that didn’t have some form of flood-control in place.
Quite right. On a lightly-used board I moderate infrequently, it’s a nightmare if I sign on and find hundreds of junk messages I have to delete. Imagine how bad it would be if there were millions. So I set the flood throttle to something real users can live with but bots won’t use to wreck it.
I think most sites do because it’s set that way by default in the software. vBulletin’s default setting is 30 seconds IIRC.
Cardio?
Everyone has pretty well nailed it. The fight with spammers and bots is never-ending, and anything we can do to keep them at bay is good. The registration process is part one, but there’s a lot more behind it.
If there’s no flood control, it’s also pretty easy to click “submit,” not be sure if you clicked, do it again, and get two posts. Or three. Or if you’re really impatient, four or five.
Asked and answered and closed at the request of the OP.