What’s w/ this “flood control” c**p? It works like you got it war surplus from the Army Corp of Engineers. I wrote out a reply, got the notice to wait 60 seconds, went out to fix my wife and me a dish of ice cream
each, resubmitted (about 4 minutes later), got the "thanks, you’re reply has been posted, scrolled down and it wasn’t there. Terrible loss of a piece of my wisdom for the model RR community!
oops! It was on page 2. But that flood control still kicks in after a gap of considerably more than 60 secnds
Flood control doesn’t come up very often. In nearly 5000 posts, I’ve seen it twice. Both times I was racing to make a response. It’s there to keep the server from being overwhelmed. It doesn’t just take into account your posts to the topic, it looks at everyone’s posts to that topic when determining too much activity.
I take it you were responding to a popular topic.[swg]
Jim: What you saw may have been MRR’s answer to the standard error page that a web server spits out when it gets overwhelmed with action.
Instead of letting the server spit out a message that means nothing to you or I, the webmaster for MRR may have substituted this “flood control” error message to be displayed instead…and Elliot is right…you should not see this message very often…if at all. Things must have been really busy when you got this message.
In the early days of the internet, it was quite possible to make a post that we would consider spam.
Then hit the key to cause the server to quite quickly generate MULTIPLE copies of the post at computer speed.
The next visitor to the forums would suddenly see something like 2000 posts and the real materal would be somewhere on page 10.
Flood control is a accepted part of forums in many areas these days.
One gaming forum I used to visit had a control where you were allowed 5 posts in 5 minutes.
Since it was possible to fire off 5 posts within the first minute you were then asked to sit and wait for the timer to expire.
I recall some topics recently that were inappropriate and way too hot to handle. Those are the days where I see 100-200 new posts several hours apart during the course of the day. I know that flood control works.
I suppose I personally never have had any issue with flood control as I type so slowly and use way way too many big words and go off on side tracks etc…not to mention some really LONG posts.
If I was this productive back in grade school with pencil and notebook paper… my teachers would complain that they dont have enough time in the day to grade all the papers I flood them with.
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I believe it does only take into account when you last posted. Here is a topic that had two posts within 2 seconds of each other.
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40306