For those of us who know how to use a computer (i.e. can type at more than one word per minute and read quickly), this new PPrune forum setting is going to be incredibly fustrating !

It's been around for years! Though it can be frustrating!

Cheers

Whirls

Mixture, your typing speed has obviously recently improved! What Whirls says is absolutely correct.

Has it really been around for years ? Wow !

Maybe other forum posters are just posting less, giving me less to read before responding !

Yep, it puts the dampers on the quick quip, often losing the relevance. As for the delay in searches...

Glad someone agrees with me !

Loose rivets you've got it in one (both the quick quip and the search delay).

I suppose it's practical idea/purpose is to stop automated spamming on the forums?

Indeed it's an anti flood control.

Look guys, I do know a thing or two about forums ....

My issue isn't with the anti-flood control, it's with the setting of 120 seconds.

Surely 60 seconds or 30 seconds is more than enough to stop flooding ?

Mixture, feel free to contact Admin (contact Us, below) with your suggestions / complaints. More likely to register than a thread here.

SD

Used it for more than 8 years,

Worked through the time permutations up and down.

120 annoys the prolific but kills the attention seekers and spam canoneers.

It's what works for us, here. The workload issue for volunteer forum mods has always been the critical measure.

Same goes for search settings - it's the one feature that has always brought the site to it's knees every (Moores) 18 months so we keep it well throttled back especially with google doing it quicker and with others paying the tab.

Regards
Rob

The "Contact Us" button was next on my list Saab, however I wanted to get a feel for the general sentiment amongst other users first.