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Posted by: Arethusa Apr 19 2004, 12:42 AM

Flood control of 30 seconds really isn't all that necessary, given the culture of the board. And it tends to get in the way if you spend a long time writing a couple posts and then try and post them at the same time. Not a big deal at all, but dropping it to 15 seconds would be kind of nice.

Also, somewhat more significantly, would be nice if previewing a post didn't count against flood control. That can actually be pretty annoying.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Apr 20 2004, 12:45 AM

And the SEARCH!

ARGH! Takes ten minutes to find things that could just take five!

Posted by: Arethusa Apr 20 2004, 01:27 AM

See, that's actually a serious concern whereas mine really weren't.

Posted by: Jason Farlander Apr 20 2004, 01:28 AM

Actually, I've found the flood control to be rather annoying quite a few times myself, whereas I've never had any problems with the Search function.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Apr 20 2004, 01:59 AM

It's the flood control on the search that bothers me. I either get far too many results right off or none at all. Hit back, add one word, search again, error (flood control), back, one-one thousand... two one thousand... three...

Posted by: A Clockwork Lime Apr 20 2004, 08:47 PM

It'd be nice if there was a switch that killed Flood Control (or came close to it; maybe 5 seconds) for people after they've hit X amount of posts.

Posted by: Adam Apr 20 2004, 11:24 PM

Flood control is rather necessary for searches, given the database load it generates.

As to regular flood control, I bump into it occasionally, but I don't think it's too horribly. I'm not doing odd things like writing multiple posts in advance, though.

Posted by: A Clockwork Lime Apr 21 2004, 12:08 AM

I think it would be less annoying, too, if the Search function didn't break down nine times out of ten when I try using it.

Posted by: Adam Apr 21 2004, 06:39 PM

What kind of errors are you getting with the search function? I haven't seen anyone mention them, previously.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Apr 22 2004, 01:44 AM

The only two errors I get are the "no result" error (which is a waste of time/and page) and the "three letter term" error. I can search the entire forum for every single post by poster "Adam." But doing so with "SoE" and poster "Adam" gives me an error!? This is Shadowrun! How many three letter terms do we have now? SoE, RPG, AVS, STR, BOD, QUI, Tir, OOP, IC, OoC, CP, PPC, CAS, CFS, LA, SR1, SR2, SR3, IE, BBB, R3, M&M, CC, FoF, Mac, PC, IJM, AGS, NIJ, VCR, MbW, DbW, FbW, DOA, DNA, SoA.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Apr 24 2004, 04:00 AM

Thank You.