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Flood Control?

1.6K views 8 replies 4 participants last post by  krs  
#1 ·
When was 'flood control' added to this forum?

I just noticed that when I tried to make a correction to one of my posts - I had to sit here and twiddle my thumbs because mls wouldn't take it for 60 seconds.

I personally find that type of control extremely annoying - basically says we are trying to address a problem (I'm not sure what on mls, I have never seen trolls on this forum) and we don't care that members now have to wait to post.


There is one other forum I go to that has flood control implemented (not train related) to combat trolls. Didn't do anything against that problem but got members there so pissed off that many no longer post or only post very seldom. I just hope this doesn't happen here.
 
Discussion starter · #9 ·
Posted By ShadsTrains on 26 Aug 2009 10:48 AM
If you have a habit of posting, then immediately going back and editing, maybe you should review what you're posting BEFORE you click on the submit button... Just sayin...



Not at all,
I read my posts before I hit the submit button and (usually) again after it's posted.

That's when I very occasionally notice either a typo or that my comments could be misinterpreted (still happens even after reading what I posted).

In the last month or so, I edited my posts very rarely and got caught twice by the flood control.


Not a big deal - I thought this was a closed issue - not sure why this was brought up again.
 
Discussion starter · #6 ·
Do you honestly think a 60 second delay, or any delay for that matter, will stop a troll?

They just set up their software to automatically post every 65 seconds to get around that delay.
On another forum that does have a lot of problems with trolls, they had flood control set to 3 minutes! Didn't stop the trolls.
You need more sophisticated methods to attack that problem than just a timer.

As to your comment that I'm not waiting to post, I'm only waiting between posts.
That is true for the first one but not thhe subsequent ones I think (I would need to check).
But are you telling me the 60 second delay only happens when I go back to my original post to make a correction, not when I go to a different post and reply.
I was pretty sure it happens with every post if the time when you access it to the time you typed your reply and hit submit button is less than 60 seconds.
 
Discussion starter · #3 ·
All right - if you tell me MLS has a troll problem, I believe you although in all the years I have used MLS - since the beginning with the sudden demise of LSOL, I have never noticed it.

But then the flood control feature is implemented incorrectly.
I get it when I need to correct a typo in a post I just submitted and where I didn't notice the typo earlier. Flood control should kick in if people try to make multiple posts in quick succession, not when one tries to correct ones own existing post.