Spam filter (by time)

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

...to get used to it.

You meant "to put up with"?
:left:

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Andreas, in the Name of Sake! :scared:
Make the filter using our postcount and/or badges/status to vary the blockage: newbies non-monkeys can oblige as it is up to 100, monkeys up to 10; then you SIMPLY can drop that! Or if you BELIEVE you can't - drop it to 60sec&5mins! already. What the Heck!!!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

I think the time limit is good enough, it makes people think a little more before posting and (try to)avoid people that like to keep posting just to update his/her post count.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Maybe you're right. Nobody else complained?
Quite for long I didn't feel it myself now. I bumped into it yesterday only when I felt myself I was unusually nimble.

So, what is the proper name for this filter - if it's not aimed at spam exactly?
Though Andreas said: >

Unfortunately we have to have pretty strict measures in place to limit the amount of spam on the forums. If we ease the restrictions in the Lounge section, it's a pretty safe bet that the Lounge section would see an increased amount of spam.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

So, what is the proper name for this filter - if it's not aimed at spam exactly?

It's a flood control filter. It can help fighting against spam but it's not mean only for that.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

The anti-spam timer is set too tightly or too rigidly. It just blocked me for 10 minutes for "posting 2 times within 120 seconds"... but my second post was simply a quick "markdown" typo-repair of my initial post. Then when the timer ran out, the post auto-double-posted my edit as a new post (which I then again edited away the text). (https://forums.opera.com/discussion/comment/15195955#Comment_15195955)

The problem with such a 10-minute delay penalty is that for an edit, with this goofy forum format, if I navigate away from the forum page, it will dump all the edit text when I navigate back via a forward/back button. So either I have to open a new browser window/tab to browse further or cut/paste my edits over to Notepad and then return to the page to post by reversing the cut/paste back to post after the timer runs out... all without overshooting the 30-minute editing timer which is also running. The anti-spam timer ought not to apply when editing.

Edited to add: And it just now did it again, after editing the above-referenced dupli-comment, and then coming here to make this new post, now I get to wait another 10 minutes for the crazy forum system penalty timer before I can do anything else in this browser window or else lose this text. Exasperating beyond words!!! X/

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Post edits shouldn't be counted for the flood control timer.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Black, this last time I bumped into this, I hit "Save draft".
It worked.