The problem here is that you can't start to reply until the limit is up. This is bad for people who have phone/device browsers that don't support quick edit, or for when you want to reply to a post.

As I believe was previously stated, when we moved from phpBB to IPB, we lowered the flood control from 60 seconds to 45 seconds as a compromise when this inconvenience surfaced. I still think that's a fair compromise :) Unfortunately we're never going to please everybody. We have to find a good balance, keeping in mind that flood control is annoying but it also has benefits (which have been previously stated). The rest of the admin team and I still feel that 45 seconds is fair.

That requires a Moderator / Super Moderator / Administrator being active, spotting it and taking them out pretty much instantly. If they post viruses or shocking/offensive images, that can be spread around the forums very fast.

Those of us wo have dealt with those situations with the 1 minute timers, can tell you that it can be bad enough. 15 seconds is not an option right now, and as Tripsis said; the Administrators have discussed this very recently (because of this topic, actually). You are stuck with 45 seconds for now, changes might occur in the future. :)

 

 

As luck would have it, I have dealt with such situations under a one minute timer. Granted, my memory is a bit dusty but I don't remember porn/virusbots being a particularly common issue, or one that was terribly difficult to clean up.

 

While I do understand the reasoning behind the given timer I don't think the issues presented merit such a long wait.

How about lowering the timer for everyone with over 100 posts? Under a 60 second timer, no spam bots would make it that far without being caught.

How about lowering the timer for everyone with over 100 posts? Under a 60 second timer, no spam bots would make it that far without being caught.

 

This isn't possible, we can only switch it off per usergroup, not specifically set it lower for certain usergroups.

i suggest that you be able to go to the compose-new-reply page on a topic even if you've just replied to a topic, but not be able to actually post that content until the 45 seconds are up. this would make it impossible for people who are copy / pasting spam adverts to post faster than currently, but would make it less annoying for people who just post fast or are answering a lot of simple questions quickly.

i suggest that you be able to go to the compose-new-reply page on a topic even if you've just replied to a topic, but not be able to actually post that content until the 45 seconds are up. this would make it impossible for people who are copy / pasting spam adverts to post faster than currently, but would make it less annoying for people who just post fast or are answering a lot of simple questions quickly.

I think most - if not all - of us would prefer it that way, but I'm not sure that it's an easy fix :(