The timing between quick posts

[Bronium 512]

So I've been making a fair few posts, within a time frame, and I've got the timer. Now I completely agree with this timer. It's another barrier spammers have to get past and that's fantastic. But let me explain what happened to me quite recently.

 

I was going to give a suggestion to the forums about the roleplay thread. But I was stopped by a timer saying I needed to wait 47 more seconds to post a new topic.

 

Then I wrote a post that took >47 seconds.

 

Here I have a suggestion to make better use of a members time.

 

Allow the person to write the post as the timer counts down, and only allow them to post after the time limit ends.

This is my reasoning. The OP post is meant to either bring discussion forth or raise a question that needs to be answered. To write a clear OP you would take >1 minutes (on average) to write. As the timer ticks down, the OP can write his post and by the time he finishes, the timer would have run out and he can post his OP. saving the OP time. (If only for a minute, which is a lot nowadays).

 

A spammer is writing very short posts or little value. After that timer ends, he'll write a a quick pointless 20 words and carry on. If he wrote that post while a timer was counting down, he would have saved just a few seconds.

 

So a spammer would save a few seconds while a real post would save a whole minute.

 

And I have another completely unrelated suggestion with an unrelated topic but didn't want to make another thread just for this so I'll lump it here.

 

Have RP posts count but only those over a certain limit of characters, such as >1000(subject to change. Need a better number) characters. Those take time and honestly if someone posts a >1000 character post, I would consider it as a real post. You don't post that much all the time in a RP and even if you do, you spent a great deal of effort writing that post out and if you wrote that anywhere else, how could you not consider that to be a brohoof worthy post?

There won't be any spam as it's not something you can easily write and it's fair to those who don't roleplay as a 1000 words is not too rare of too often.

 

Sorry if this has been already brought up. FAQ on the search bar is need. ;.;

[Twilight Sparkle ✨ 8,526]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not too hot on the idea of making that invisible 60-second timer anything more than an invisible 60-second timer. You may run into it every now and then as a legitimate user, but it's not that hard to wait whatever number of seconds it tells you to be able to submit your post.

 

The idea of saving time is a noble one; however, this is one of those cases where we'd have to expend significant custom development resources for savings that will likely be of extremely little benefit to the site in the long run. The vast majority of members aren't even aware of the flood control limit, because they never run into it.

[Bronium 512]

Oh, I just write my posts, on the assumption that you can do. Not because I don't consider that your resources are limited. Just that if I considered that, I would never give feedback because I think it would be too hard to implement(because I have no idea how a forum functions).

 

But it's okay though. I mean, if it's too hard and you don't feel it's worth the costs, I'm okay with that.

[Acoustic Cloud 2,202]

I only dislike it in one area, the Roleplays, sometimes you just get going so quickly that you could do it in less than a minute. other than that though, it is fine.