Spam Prevention

[Matthew Gates]

John, you already do it with Private Messaging, you have to wait 1 minute in order to send another Private Message, but why don't you do that with posts? So people can't post the same question twice by accident?

[honeybee]

NO!!!

What about me?? I open many posts in new windows, hit the Reply link and disconnect when the reply screen appears. Then I type out replies to all the posts, connect again and hit the Send Reply button one after another. If for each reply I have to wait for a minute, I shall land up with a phone bill half my salary!

Please, John, don't be so hard on poor honeybee!

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[CyberSurfer]

Matthew, I don't think that would be particularly viable, especially not for us Chit Chatters, who post to multiple threads at once.

[Matthew Gates]

honeybee: It would only work for those creating new threads, that's what I mean, not really replying in posts, but rather creating new topics.

[honeybee]

Wouldn't really help, as you would end up having duplicate posts.

Nah! Even for PMs, if I send a message to all my buddies, that could generate effective spamming.

On second thoughts, for Me it wouldn't work, I just have 6-7 people listed.

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[Matthew Gates]

What do you mean duplicate posts? I'm talkin' about threads honeybee.

Example: A person creates a thread, and it's takin' forever, although it has already submitted, the person presses the button again, and takes you to a page saying that you can only post new topics every 60 seconds. This will prevent people form at least creating 2 or 3 of the same topics from clicking Submit a few times.

[Jethro]

I hate spam, why ruin a perfectly good ham.

[honeybee]

As long as it's just about threads, well, I guess I shall have nothing to say against it.

With ya, Matthew.

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[Xenonic_Rob]

You could make it that it won't let you post the SAME THREAD with the SAME MESSAGE twice in a minute... that'd make it OK for people to post different threads, but not the same one.