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Offline DorkeyDear

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20s limit
« on: June 17, 2008, 12:09:48 pm »
The 20 second limit should not apply when posting, and then PMing somebody right afterwards.
For some scripts from requests, I PM the person a link to the topic I just created, which I can't sense I have to wait...

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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2008, 03:13:20 pm »
You have two billion, two hundred seven million, five hundred twenty thousand 20-seconds in your life. I think you can spare a few of them.

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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2008, 06:00:55 pm »
Never really had a problem with it... When something like that happens I just wait a few seconds playing minesweeper.
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 06:07:49 pm »
don't spam so damn much. jeez, if you spent so little time on a post, it probably wasn't worth sending anyway.
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2008, 06:11:03 pm »
He could have just posted something and then went to PM someone with a short message, couldn't he?
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2008, 03:00:36 am »
I agree, it seems pretty unnecessary to have to wait to send a PM.
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2008, 03:54:45 am »
Why is it there anyway?  getting rid of it would just mean more excuses to ban people for trying to spam tonnes of messages ;)

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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2008, 04:20:28 am »
Oh no, 20 seconds, that's such a long time -_-.... I have some fleas in my hair, want to pick those too?

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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2008, 04:21:35 am »
Actually, I would love to!

I agree, it seems pretty unnecessary to have to wait to send a PM.

I totally agree.. It's 20 seconds, nothing to complain about. Adjust matey! Adjust ;)
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2008, 05:43:51 am »
Its not the time span that I react on. Its the idea of having to wait a set time period before you send a personal message. I just find it pointless.
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2008, 06:10:50 am »
Oh no, 20 seconds, that's such a long time -_-.... I have some fleas in my hair, want to pick those too?

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Who wouldn't want to :P
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2008, 06:55:44 am »
Its not the time span that I react on. Its the idea of having to wait a set time period before you send a personal message. I just find it pointless.

There was this forumer once, "duriel" I think his name was.. or something. He kept on spamming me up with PM's that had nothing in them.. I blocked him, and it took care of the problem. But it was still annoying to have to delete half a million posts, as well as while it lasted. If the 20 second thing hadn't been there at the time, he could've spammed me even more!

Do not remove it.
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2008, 03:03:40 pm »
But this is not about removing delays between PM's. Just delays between a regular post and a PM ;)
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2008, 06:22:54 pm »
pm's that just say :D are annoying, if those 20 seconds will prevent some nub from sending them, great.


How about something useful, like a block list for pm's...
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2008, 09:27:38 pm »
Already in place, 4-y-o. Investigate.

I agree about the wait between posts and PMs being pointless.

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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2008, 12:14:44 am »
But this is not about removing delays between PM's. Just delays between a regular post and a PM ;)

Woah, guess I was a little slow that day :P In this case, I agree!
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Re: 20s limit
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2008, 08:44:37 am »
But this is not about removing delays between PM's. Just delays between a regular post and a PM ;)
If you want to go digging through the source code of SMF and tell me what change to make such that the two don't interfere, by all means please do.  I don't feel like spending my time doing this just because one person wants to be able to send PMs immediately after posting.