Topic: Can't Post because of 360 sec delay bug - page 2. (Read 1268 times)

The time you have to wait goes down with the more activity you get. Mine is about 40 seconds now. Just post more and bare it and it'll go soon.

I can see from the newbie help that it says that "logging in" and "searching" can trigger this. 

Isn't that a little over-sensitive? 

If I happen to want to respond to a post, or search for something and can clearly see that it isn't there, why do I have to wait another 5 minutes before I can post it?  Similarly if I search, can clearly see that my question has not been asked before, why do I have to wait?

Similarly with posting.  If I'm in many conversations at once, and I have to wait 6 minutes before responses, I'll likely leave and forget to come back...

Same deal with logging in.  That one seems really crazy.  If I'm in the middle of a conversation, haven't logged in yet today, then I have to log in and then wait 6 minutes before I can respond?

I can understand some restrictions to prevent spamming, but it would seem like the newbie only forum + 4 hour wait seems like a pretty good middle ground there.  Maybe 30 or 60 seconds between messages too (like most other forums).  That's enough to stop spammers, and require a little bit of thought on your posts, but 6 minutes is way too long.  I can quite easily compose meaningful and useful responses to threads within 60-90 seconds.  Again, if I'm forced to wait then I'm more likely to go do something else and forget to come back.

If someone is determined to spam, they will work around the restrictions.  Is seems a little overbearing and counterproductive to punish everyone for the actions of only a few.

What's really frustrating is that after getting the "you can't post yet" message, if you wait then it tells you that you've already posted this message.  I have to actually cancel it and start again?

thanks for this! Lets wait 4 hours than!

Big time lol. Thankfully mine was not 10 paragraphs long.

It's so lame that logging in and even SEARCHING triggers the 360 seconds rule... Imagine if you misstype some letter or forget to type in a word or something?!

Good rules.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/newbie-readme-177133

Newbie Restrictions
You can only post in the Newbie and Local sub-forums till you have made one post and waited 4 hours.
You can only post once every 360 seconds to start and there are a few other things that trigger this timer such as logging in and searching.

Hooray for newbie status and getting hit with the same message, backing out and losing the intro post.

I can't post in certain forums. Thats more anoying.

It's annoying, but I get it the need to ensure people are only registering for considered reasons... grr lol

I think you have to wait until you've earned your stripes (posted a few posts in the newbie section) Once you've had so many posts I think the restriction is removed.

Your registration is post.

Hi. I can't post anything because it tells me i have to w8 360 sec since my last post, but i never posted anything be4!

EDIT: looks like creating a topic works