# I have to wait twenty-nine seconds before I can search again **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 22, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308 "2005-06-22T03:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/1 "2005-06-22T03:51:30Z")
I accidentally double-clicked on the “New Posts” button, and the board took that is too many searches in a 30-second period. I’ve received the message before alerting me to the one-search-per-30-seconds rule, but I’ve never seen the addendum alerting me to how many seconds I still have to wait before I can search again. Is this new? I guess I won’t have to count Mississippis anymore. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/2 "2005-06-22T03:54:15Z")
Wow, one incomplete thought after another in the OP. Let me complete the main one: When the screen came up that I searched too many times in a 30-second period, it alerted me that I still had to wait 29 seconds before my next search. _That’s_ the addendum I was talking about. The amount of time remaining. Happy ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/3 "2005-06-22T05:18:12Z")
NO this isn’t a new restriction. YES you have a hella short attention span. So do I. NO waiting 30 dang seconds won’t kill you. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/4 "2005-06-22T05:46:43Z")
No, that’s not what I’m asking. I know about the screen that pops up announcing that I can only perform one search per 30 seconds. But, it seems, this announcement now comes with another announcement alerting me to how many seconds I have left to wait. > [@](#): > > This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds before submitting another search. You have 12 seconds to wait before another search will be allowed. (Underlining mine) Is the underlined protion of the announcement a new addition, or have I just never noticed it before? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/5 "2005-06-22T06:22:01Z")
IIRC, I ran across that message “you have 17 seconds…” many months ago. It came with one of the vB updates. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/6 "2005-06-22T14:46:00Z")
Odd, I saw it yesterday for the first time myself. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-wait-twenty-nine-seconds-before-i-can-search-again/309308/7 "2005-06-22T18:19:49Z")
How hard would it be to actually show a countdown? Hmm, a suggestion to Jelsoft.