Certain amount of posts within a certain time

[Skywrath]

To my dismay, there was a post limit amount within a certain time for myself, and I never encountered that issue before. Is that supposed to be normal?

[Brother Tyler]

Yes. It is intended to prevent spammers from inundating the site with spam posts.

 

There are two alternate effects:

• If a member posts sequential replies in the same discussion in a short timespan, the software will automatically consolidate them.
• If a member attempts to post too many replies in different discussions within a short timespan, the software will automatically prevent them from making the additional posts during that timespan.

The timespan is very short - a few minutes (5 or less, I don't remember off the top of my head), so it's only a minor nuisance in the rare instance that it takes place. We believe that the minor annoyance of having to wait a few minutes between submitting posts is well worth the alternative of having spammers flood the site with nonsense (or worse, malicious content/links).

[WarriorFish]

Flood control is only for 30 seconds, automatic concurrent post merging is within 2 minutes :tu:

[Skywrath]

Ah thank you.