This forum requires that you wait 5 seconds between reporting posts

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How annoying. Even if it is 5 seconds, don't see why the restriction is there.

Priorities.

5 seconds is hardly unrealistic and, on the topic of priorities, hardly something we (I guess that means everyone except Dan) can't live with. In the mean time you could pick your nose, scratch an itch, flick to another browser tab, or just wait: it's only 5 seconds. It used to be 30!

Out of interest, where do you (Dan) think the boundary should lie: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 seconds? Heck, I (being old, blind and slow) take that long to switch to another tab even if I have a whole bunch lined up to report!

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi ... LOL Five seconds isn't that long. I'm on other forums that still require 30 seconds.

Originally Posted by Salathe 5 seconds is hardly unrealistic and, on the topic of priorities, hardly something we (I guess that means everyone except Dan) can't live with. In the mean time you could pick your nose, scratch an itch, flick to another browser tab, or just wait: it's only 5 seconds. It used to be 30! Out of interest, where do you (Dan) think the boundary should lie: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 seconds? Heck, I (being old, blind and slow) take that long to switch to another tab even if I have a whole bunch lined up to report!

Bit snarky that Salathe.

My point was the restriction serves no useful purpose apart from waste time of the reportee. How many times have spammers actually exploited the report function? Now just because you're contempt doesn't mean others must, and personally I prefer to iron out usability issues like this.

Not snarky, just making light of the "usability issue" of having to wait a whole 5 seconds between firing off reports. I'm all for making life easier for the quasi-moderators who feel the urge to report every little problem (and, thankfully, lots of spam).

Priorities.

(OK, that last paragraph was snarky.)

Why make light of the issue? Spams a serious problem among the forum and you should know that.

Now 5 seconds isn't long and I made note of this in my original post, yet you comment anyway (fully expected someone to to be honest.) Right, do the math... reporting 5 spam posts equals 20 seconds of lemoness. Ideally I should be able to report spam as fast as I find it, anything less is not good enough.

My points made. Carry on mocking the issue if you wish.

Originally Posted by Dan Why make light of the issue? Spams a serious problem among the forum and you should know that. Now 5 seconds isn't long and I made note of this in my original post, yet you comment anyway (fully expected someone to to be honest.) Right, do the math... reporting 5 spam posts equals 20 seconds of lemoness. Ideally I should be able to report spam as fast as I find it, anything less is not good enough. My points made. Carry on mocking the issue if you wish.

It's not an issue, there are things other than spam these restrictions are there to prevent. Some bots can be used to abuse this function and overload the server. 5 seconds wait seems hardly a problem if it is there to save downtime.

Originally Posted by Fez It's not an issue

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/issue

Originally Posted by Fez Some bots can be used to abuse this function and overload the server. 5 seconds wait seems hardly a problem if it is there to save downtime.

That's the weakest arguement possible.

The registration page should be preventing such bots. Failing that, allow reportees to report upto 10 posts within a set timeframe, any more would require said restriction.

That argument is not weak. You think that we should rely on just the signup process to get away from such issues. When there is an attack of this sort there usually is a very real person or persons behind it and I don't think they will find it hard to get multiple registrations, furthermore Xrumer can beat all capatcha checks and whatever you throw at them. I personally had to go through a tiring process of adding 4 security levels to be safe from XRUMER on my forum.

Secondly, I think there should be a forum rule for users to not report more than one spam posts of the same spammer. Typically spambots can just be purged from the database with one click so there is hardly any point in reporting each and every post (I don't know if you are doing that but if you are, then you shouldn't be).

Have more patience and less annoyance. It helps.