# Flood **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 12, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood/8443 "2000-03-12T00:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood/8443/1 "2000-03-12T00:24:00Z")
Hey whats a flood got do with why I can’t post?? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood/8443/2 "2000-03-12T00:55:00Z")
That’s usually a question for ‘About this message board.’ You just can’t post too often…too often is called a flood. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood/8443/3 "2000-03-12T00:57:00Z")
“Flood Control” is a feature of the UBB software intended to cut down on “double posts,” which come when a person hits the “submit” button twice (or more) in succession. During times when the board is operating normally, it’s a remarkably effective preventative to the dreaded double post. ## I’m going to send this thread to About This Message Board so that all the other curious folks can learn about this neat feature. [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html)