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From:WA, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 09-18-2001 04:39 PM               

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This flood control thing is VERY annoying. It makes it hard to ask or answer questions. I understand Eidos wants to prevent flooding, and that is good. But 90 seconds!?!?!?!?
A post every 30 seconds is not flooding. Sometimes after posting, I move on to the next thread and am able to answer someone else's question, or have one of my own. A 90 second wait can be a long time.
Is there any way to reduce the flood control waiting time?

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posted 09-18-2001 04:56 PM               

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Yeah! I hate flood control. It can be so annoying. Sometimes when I click the back button my post is gone, too. A thirty-second flood control would be MUCH better. I really don't think that you all have to worry about flooding. It's gonna be posted anyway, right?

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From:Mission, BC, Canada
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posted 09-18-2001 05:03 PM               

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How bout a 60 second flood gate.

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From:Suffolk, England
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posted 09-18-2001 10:29 PM               

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Obviously the main problem here is that sometimes a person can hit the submit button twice by mistake, thus produce 2 of the same reply. Or you think that it has frozen up whilst it is submitting so you click the submit button once more, just for good measure. Oops, you just created another reply again.
Whilst I think that a 90 second floodgate is a small invonvenience for having a clean and tidy forum, I will put this question to one of the admins. Maybe they will be willing to compromise on a shorter time. I'll let everyone know when I hear something.
Emma

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From:Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
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posted 09-19-2001 12:13 PM               

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The HTML code behind the response form, uses a standard Submit button

It is just a matter of disabling the button (in javascript) once the response has been submitted.....

That way flood control could be chopped to 15 seconds and still avoid submit button 'stutter'

Perhaps you would like to suggest this to the admins ? {SMUG MODE = "ON"}

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From:worksop near sheffield, england
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posted 09-19-2001 12:47 PM               

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acctually i think that the post button is cgi based not javascript?

There s not any javascript near it only the cookie script!

but adding a script could work (sorry i didnt read your post properly)
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