I have (I see) just passed the 18,000 post mark. Now, while I would certainly never claim that all of those posts have been intellectual gold, I do think I can go on record that they were all honest attempts to contribute to the board.
That said, could I PLEEEEASE now be trusted to post more often than every 30 seconds??! I promise and swear on the Straight Dope book that the last 15 years have not been just a long con, designed to finally get myself into a trusted position where I can flood the place with spam. Really! Honestly!
Seriously. There’s really no need to keep that damn filter in place for people who have been here for more than a decade. Or even five years. Maybe even one. It’s annoying as hell.
If I remember correctly, there is a way to change the waiting time in between posts, but it would change it for everyone, globally. There’s no way to set it just for specific members.
Heck, I’m another 99er and it takes me *more *than 30 seconds to even come up with a “How You doin’” or a “Pics or it did not happen” or a “(golf clap)” or an “It’s [Bush/Obama]'s fault”. Who’s in such a hurry to say so many different things so briefly?
Then that may be just the advancing age and progressive neural degeneracy (I’ve been a degenerate in other senses of the word far longer)…
I’m with AB, I’d rather take a “Hey the last post was from 2002, are you sure you wanna raise a zombie?” flag.
I’m a noob. I bow before your assembled awesomeness.
I’d just like the flag not to get thrown before I’ve actually, well, done anything. Can’t search because it says I’ve already searched. Can’t pull down today’s threads because I’ve already done that.
Can’t post because I’ve already posted. Maybe there’s some sort double secret probation for noobs. You guys wait 120 seconds. I wait 120 seconds to wait 120 seconds. :mad:
The 60 second limit almost never comes up for me, and when it does… well, it’s less than a minute. I open up some other thread and come back to it, and it’s always ready now.
Huh, I could’ve sworn two or three of them were just idle chatter.
It’d be nice to have a board upgrade so that when you do a search and it fails for some reason or other, you could immediately re-try a search without getting the message that you have to wait for X seconds. Of course, Google works a lot better than the built-in board search function so it doesn’t really matter.
*if you post that you are a member, does it violate the “don’t be a dick” rule?
I really enjoyed my 5th anniversary. I got a personally autographed picture of Cecil, on horseback, on his ranch. For those of you who haven’t seen him, Cecil looks a lot like Don Imus.
I wish the edit window were 10 minutes instead of 5. Sometimes it takes me a while to retype something. What bad things would happen if the edit time were doubled?
