# Reporting and posting overlap delay

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-and-posting-overlap-delay/697755>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 7, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-and-posting-overlap-delay/697755 "2014-09-07T11:07:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-and-posting-overlap-delay/697755/1 "2014-09-07T11:07:09Z")

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I don’t think the board was behaving like this until quite recently.

Now, when I report a posting, and then return to post “Reported” in the thread, I get hit with a 60 second minimum time between postings block. It seems that reporting a post is considered as a post, and thus the process of reporting spam and the like takes over a minute whilst the delay times out.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-and-posting-overlap-delay/697755/2 "2014-09-07T11:27:37Z")

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There is already a thread for this:

> **[Report function triggers 60 second waiting period?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=732741)**
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> So we’ve got one of those fake passport guys spamming up the place tonight. I’ve reported a couple of his threads, and both times, when I went to post that I’d done so, I had to wait 60 seconds before “posting again”. I don’t remember encountering...

I am going to close this and direct further comments to the other thread.