# "This forum requires that you wait 300 seconds between searches. Please try again in 300 seconds." **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 25, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253 "2009-07-25T22:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253/1 "2009-07-25T22:08:17Z")
I’ve gotten this error message twice now, after a more-than-5-minute wait between searches (New Posts). WTF? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253/2 "2009-07-25T22:15:57Z")
My trackball occasionally triggers a double click when I only click once thus sending two search requests within a split second. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253/3 "2009-07-26T17:41:02Z")
Huh, what do you know, now that you say that, I am noticing inadvertent double-clicks in other apps as well. Time for a new mouse, I guess. This one is getting elderly, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253/4 "2009-07-26T18:24:38Z")
My favorite: “Please try again in 1 second”. Which is less than it took to serve that message and all it does is generate more work for the server. There is nothing that can be done against that, I know. It’s just funny. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253/5 "2009-07-26T18:35:22Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > My favorite: “Please try again in 1 second”. > > Which is less than it took to serve that message and all it does is generate more work for the server. There is nothing that can be done against that, I know. It’s just funny. I take a screenshot on these, I’m trying to collect the whole set. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-forum-requires-that-you-wait-300-seconds-between-searches-please-try-again-in-300-seconds/504253/6 "2009-07-27T17:32:48Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > My favorite: “Please try again in 1 second”. > > Which is less than it took to serve that message and all it does is generate more work for the server. There is nothing that can be done against that, I know. It’s just funny. It’s worse than that. I believe it says: “Please try again in 1 seconds.” Plural!