When did time delay btwn posts get introduced?

[Baeric Constantine]

Not allowed to post messages more than once every 120 seconds.

When was this time delay introduced? It is severely annoying and aggravating.

[bee Baroque]

it was introduced last week as an effort to stop the charming spam bots.

[Irene Muni]

Hi Baeric.

As Bee says. See http://blogs.secondlife.com/message/478598 and http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Scams#Why_can_I_post_only_once_every_two_minutes.3F

[Suella Ember]

I find it a little odd that having to wait 2 minutes is aggravating people so much!

I mean - I count myself as a reasonably fast typist but, even if I were to write a post directly after having just done one, it would still probably take at least 2 minutes!

I've only bumped into that message once so far, and that was because I happened to go straight to answering another question with a very short answer right after having just written a post. Guess what I did? I waited about 30 seconds, tried again and the post went through. How aggravating!

If it helps in some small way to combat the spam problems then I can cope with it.

Btw Bearic - just so you know. You may also at some point hit a message saying you have to wait for your post to be moderated before it will show. Panic yee not - this is just another spam combating method. You'll likely have just innocently used a word that the spammers are using which they are now filtering. As soon as they check and see its not spam it will get posted

[Hippie Bowman]

bee Baroque wrote:

 

it was introduced last week as an effort to stop the charming spam bots.

And oh yes!!!  I saw no spam this morning!!  Woot!!

[bee Baroque]

i can imagine people run into this far more often over in the gd area than in ra (or any other forums for that matter). it does get active and uhm quite heated there from time to time

[bee Baroque]

Hippie Bowman wrote:

And oh yes!!!  I saw no spam this morning!!  Woot!!

then you woke up to a good morning

i believe it has helped to some degree, but i also see that they register multiple accounts and they all take turn in posting so it still gets flooded. but it has gone down quite a bit. it's like breathing fresh air when they're not around for a day

[Irene Muni]

bee Baroque wrote:

 

Hippie Bowman wrote:

And oh yes!!!  I saw no spam this morning!!  Woot!!

then you woke up to a good morning

And he woke up late!

This morning (morning in Europe, about 1 am SLT) there was spam of FUengineeCK in some forums (portuguese, for example).

[Baeric Constantine]

Thank you to all that replied. I should have paid more attention in class. Slap my wrists.

[Irene Muni]

You're welcome.

Baeric.Constantine wrote:

I should have paid more attention in class.

Yes, but don't worry: probably this class will last quite .