# Let's eliminate the 60 second rule **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 29, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760 "2018-01-29T21:35:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760/21 "2018-01-30T13:40:39Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Is it really that much of an inconvenience in the first place? I would find it difficult to submit a post, read another message, think about a response, and submit a response to that all within a 60 second period of time. Perhaps I’m just pokey. This. Holy crap, people. We’re talking about a few SECONDS. Take that time to learn a foreign language, teach yourself brain surgery, do a push-up, put something in the crock pot for dinner, pet the dog, smell the roses. Those are seconds you’ll never get back. :rolleyes: I don’t post in the Game thread, but I can see where a posting delay would be annoying there. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760/22 "2018-01-30T16:07:09Z")
I don’t get into the Game threads much or the “live during the event” threads that pop up sometimes like election night but I like the rule. On another board I used to follow some posters went nuts slinging one line responses to every thread or post that came along as a form of jamming (even I was guilty of that sometimes) and post-whoring. Sixty seconds may not stop such behavior but it at least serves as a sort of speed-bump for some of us. I could live without it but I think I would miss it and it could make the Mods jobs a little tougher sometimes and lead to a fair number of Instant Bans. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760/23 "2018-01-30T17:17:40Z")
Keep the post delay, reduce the search delay. As someone noted above, if you screw up the search, two minutes a looong time to wait. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760/24 "2018-01-30T17:47:32Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > It happens to me once in a while, that I’ll want to post a quick one-line reply in one thread less than a minute after posting something in another thread (or in the same thread, in response to a different post). But it’s usually no great hardship to have to wait a few seconds. I consider it a bonus. I get to type my post, and then gaze at it with admiration for the remaining 50 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760/25 "2018-01-31T16:35:44Z")
I don’t use board search anymore. Google is much faster and less restrictive. I’ve run into the “please wait X seconds” and would sometimes hit the button early out of sheer spite, but now I just look at the news on another tab to pass the time. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760/26 "2018-02-01T02:01:57Z")
I’ll say this. The time delay for searches is bad news at least for me. It takes me a handful of times to refine my search enough so that I don’t either get a buttload of results or just a few that still don’t match what I am looking for. It’s bad enough (for me at least) that I don’t search for anything on this board using the board search unless I’m pretty desperate. I certainly don’t use it even remotely casually…thats for sure. Anything to lower that limit IMO would be a Godsend. I can still live with a longish limit between posts… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-eliminate-the-60-second-rule/807760.md?page=1)