Does anyone think the timer is too long?

[thephenom]

Do anyone think that we are only to post a new reply every 30 seconds a little too long?

I find it long sometimes when you have multi-threads opened and trying to answer some questions, only to find out, you can only post every 30 seconds, and when you click back, all the things you typed are GONE.....

[SNAFU]

Originally posted by thephenom
Do anyone think that we are only to post a new reply every 30 seconds a little too long?

I find it long sometimes when you have multi-threads opened and trying to answer some questions, only to find out, you can only post every 30 seconds, and when you click back, all the things you typed are GONE.....

It definately sucks for us spammers! I find my left index finger glued to the f5 key. I press it after every post! Well, after hitting the back button 4 times. Thank god it's right next to my thumb on the mx700!

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
It definately sucks for us spammers! I find my left index finger glued to the f5 key. I press it after every post! Well, after hitting the back button 4 times. Thank god it's right next to my thumb on the mx700!
Oh right, I keep forgeting my MX500 has F5 binded to the lil button too.:Blah

[SNAFU]

Don't you mean the "back" button?


+1

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
Don't you mean the "back" button?


+1
I mean the one under the down arrow button under the scrollwheel. I binded that button to be F5.

[SNAFU]

Hmm... I can't find the option to do that. It's not in the control panel. And I don't have mouseware installed... It's actually doing nothing right now. It worked when I had mouseware installed. But I didn't bother installing it when I reformatted my HDD...:Crying

[thephenom]

Originally posted by SNAFU
Hmm... I can't find the option to do that. It's not in the control panel. And I don't have mouseware installed... It's actually doing nothing right now. It worked when I had mouseware installed. But I didn't bother installing it when I reformatted my HDD...:Crying
Mouseware is pretty crappy if you ask me. I'm just too lazy to uninstall it, and I rarely use that tiny button anyway.

[egarrard]

Nah, the timer's fine. It takes me that long to think up where I left the keyboard, not to mention witty reparte. :banghead

[SNAFU]

It's kinda too far down and a pain to reach for. Even when I did have it installed, I found it much easier and faster to alt+tab rather than clicking it for the menu then clicking the right window.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by egarrard
Nah, the timer's fine. It takes me that long to think up where I left the keyboard, not to mention witty reparte. :banghead
Does it ever happen to you that you took shorter than 30 seconds to make 2 replies?

[egarrard]

no

[egarrard]

still no

[Xilant]

Its not the timer that bugs me... Its the fact i can only edit my post for 10 after i submited it.

[wazman]

No, I think it's fine the way it is.

Lots of people are spending lots of time posting lots of stuff that doesn't have anything to do with anything. And it's starting to irritate me, just like it irritated Digital Sin.

I mean, come on. When you reach 1000 posts, that's cool. When you reach 2000, that's cool. When you reach 5000, that's cool. But I've been seeing so many threads lately that are nothing more than "Woot! I have 100 posts!" "Woot! I have 400 posts!" "Woot! I have 600 posts!"

And what's been contributed? How many people have been helped by some of these posts? What percentage of these posts are actually filled with some kind of content, and what percentage is just spam?

Rant off.

[shortys31]

it gets anoting when it happens ... doesnt happen often though

[3dGameMan]

Actually the Floodcheck (Minimum time between posts) was 30 secs. I've since made it 20 secs.

[wazman]

I personally think it should have been left the way it was. But hey - not my forum.

[stylinprofilin]

Hmm..

Are we denying our spamming instinks!?

[wazman]

Well, some of us come to this board for other things than to spam...

Not to say I don't... But it's not what I do the vast majority of the time.

(Edit - I will learn to type one of these days. I really will.)

[SNAFU]

But it's the "Off Topic" forums! Like the name, it's off topic? Posting on topic in the off topic would make it off topic which makes it on topic so it's really off topic so that means it's on topic but that makes it off topic so now it's on topic making it off topic making it... I'm confusing myself... Maybe we should change the name to "Random Junk but keep it on topic?"

[wazman]

I vote we change the name of Off Topic to just:

"Stuff".

Just "Stuff".

Any stuff you want.

[Maniacmous]

Originally posted by wazman
I vote we change the name of Off Topic to just:

"Stuff".

Just "Stuff".

Any stuff you want.

That's a pretty liberal approach...I mean, that could turn the Babes thread to X rated very fast...and I know we have some youngsters (and perhaps some adults as well) that don't need to be exposed to such content as "Any stuff you want" would allow. Yes, I know you didn't intend it to be like that...I'm just saying...we should just keep stuff as it is, it has worked just fine for how long now as it stands? :Holy Crap

[thephenom]

Enough forums have their own General Mayhem forum, and it's not a pretty site I would say. Everything is messed up.

[t00lb0x]

The 30 second is stopping stylinprofilin from getting to 2000 before I do ;x Keep it, or make it 45.

[SNAFU]

:lmao

Maybe we can make him his own thread where he can post anything he wants as many times as he wants until he reaches 2000

[Maniacmous]

No...such a thread would make the servers die, our brains turn to mush, and demons to start rising out of every computer still attached to dial-up. :Holy Crap

[thephenom]

Originally posted by Maniacmous
No...such a thread would make the servers die, our brains turn to mush, and demons to start rising out of every computer still attached to dial-up. :Holy Crap
That's why you don't see much dial-up users in the Off Topic forum because most of the threads jumps EVERYWHERE

[Maniacmous]

Well, littlemissborin is running most of the time on a 26.4k connection, including tonight if I'm not mistaken. :Holy Crap

[thephenom]

Originally posted by Maniacmous
Well, littlemissborin is running most of the time on a 26.4k connection, including tonight if I'm not mistaken. :Holy Crap
Ouch.....:Holy Crap

I still remember my first 14.4kbps modem.:Nope

[Maniacmous]

Yeah, I can too...heck...I used to run 24k up until like 3 months before I got cable, finally started getting 56k speeds just before I got broadband, now, I could never look back.

[thephenom]

Originally posted by Maniacmous
Yeah, I can too...heck...I used to run 24k up until like 3 months before I got cable, finally started getting 56k speeds just before I got broadband, now, I could never look back.
I don't think I can EVER go back on a modem.

Hey, I think I just saw the Timer lowered to 20 seconds. Is that correct?

[SNAFU]

Rod adjusted it for us spammers

[Maniacmous]

Yeah, he made our life easier...though I still have gotten the warning a couple of times tonight...

[thephenom]

Originally posted by Maniacmous
Yeah, he made our life easier...though I still have gotten the warning a couple of times tonight...
I ran across it once, I thought I saw new post every 20 seconds. My internet has been slow tonite with all the downloads, so the time is GOOD for now.

[Maniacmous]

I've not done any downloading in the longest time...just no time really to do it, nor anything really worth the effort. :Holy Crap

[thephenom]

Originally posted by Maniacmous
I've not done any downloading in the longest time...just no time really to do it, nor anything really worth the effort. :Holy Crap
We won't get into the discussion of what's out there to download.:Blah

[wazman]

Originally posted by Maniacmous
That's a pretty liberal approach...I mean, that could turn the Babes thread to X rated very fast...and I know we have some youngsters (and perhaps some adults as well) that don't need to be exposed to such content as "Any stuff you want" would allow. Yes, I know you didn't intend it to be like that...I'm just saying...we should just keep stuff as it is, it has worked just fine for how long now as it stands? :Holy Crap

Well, I just meant change the name - the same rules would still apply.

I was just saying that instead of trying to come up with a title that encompasses everything we get up to in Off Topic, just keep it simple and call it "Stuff". Cause all the stuff that doesn't go anywhere else goes in here.

Definitely keep the same rules though. I don't want all that other stuff either.

[youm0nt]

i think its fine.i havent noticed it anyway;)