You cannot make another post so soon after your last

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Mike W.
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You cannot make another post so soon after your last

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While I appreciate Jeremy, Justin, AKA Catalyst and anyone else doing the heavy lifting keeping Mye28 running, I do none the less have a frustration. Maybe I'm typing faster than I used to, but I kind of doubt it. Something's changed. I'm regularly getting the You cannot make another post so soon after your last lately and I never did before? Of course I think it's too short, but even if it isn't, just how long is the time out? And was there a problem, or just it seemed like a good idea?

Again, thanks for the hard work from the people who keep this place running.
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Same on occasion.
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Gotta learn to make your long posts after a short one. I've run into that recently and the time seemed rather long. Maybe someone bumped the switch or it changed with an automatic update.
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Blue Shadow wrote: Feb 24, 2023 9:01 PM Gotta learn to make your long posts after a short one.
Makes sense, but I just kind of look at things, most I don't even think about replying to, and those I do, some are very short, others take 20 minutes, but I don't plan it, it's just kind of as it comes.

While I may whine more than others, at least it's good to see I'm not alone.
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well Mike, with all due respect, 26,000 posts? Not sure the momentary lock out has affected much. :D
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I didn’t make a post for like 8 months and got the same message. :D
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The time limit isn't all that long - I think just 60 seconds. Doesn't seem like much of a hardship.
I believe it's in place to try to prevent multiple posts from spammers, so I'm okay with it.
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In all seriousness the only time it triggered it for me was when I replied to 3-4 PMs in a row. Otherwise that’s it.
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stuartinmn wrote: Feb 27, 2023 3:14 PM The time limit isn't all that long - I think just 60 seconds. Doesn't seem like much of a hardship.
I believe it's in place to try to prevent multiple posts from spammers, so I'm okay with it.
It seems like it's 3-5 minutes, but it may not be that long.

Maybe there's stuff going on behind the scenes I don't know about, but while we do have some problem with spammers, it seems in general they only make a couple of posts and don't try to blanket the board.
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I don't see spammers very often either, but a) I'm not watching the board continuously so the moderators may be deleting them before I have a chance to see them, and b) it may be proof that whatever measures are being taken to prevent them are working.
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This is new and it’s clearly broken.

Frustrating.
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Post by Justin_FL »

Changed it about 2.5 months ago to 120 seconds because there was a rash of double postings... definitely not 5 minutes or 20 minutes!

I set it back to 30 seconds and will monitor for double posts. I think it's because people use the back button after submitting and maybe some browsers or user error resubmits the form.
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Thanks Justin!

Double posts can be weird. At work years ago now, sometimes it would happen and there was no back button involved, I would post, hit submit and when it came up there would be a double. Now that IT dept was so screwed up and cranked down no telling what was going on, but at least then it would just happen. Only at work.

Thanks again, I knew it probably wasn't as long as it seemed, but it seemed to be forever.
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