Hello,
I was just wondering if you could perhaps disable this:
"To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed."
for edits, because preventing new users from editing prior to waiting 5 minutes only prevents them from correcting errors, not from spamming. Or does it?
edit: Plus it encourages double posting instead of edditing supplements as it is now.
edit2: Wait, why was I able to edit this prior to waiting 5 minutes? Mabe just a missclick earlier on, please just go on and delete this topic. *blush
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I'm trying to edit a post and im getting this error, I'm editing not making a new post/reply.
To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed.
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Be patient, once you become an active/regular member all features will be unlocked automatically
Searching the site is now limited to 1 search per 25 seconds.
If you search after 22 seconds, the 25 second timer resets.
This is horrible.
If you accidentally mistype when searching, or the scripts that are running flub your input, then 0 results are found. Obviously you aren't being malicious when modifying the search and pressing search again.
If you want to stop robotic abuse, put one of thos things in that makes you enter characters.
Or at least allow 2 searches in 50 seconds.
Or limit it to 2 in 50 seconds if 0 results were found with the initial search.
Can we please change this policy, to allow a 2nd search without delay if 0 results were found on the first search?
Normally, when I log into XDA, I search for all threads that I have posted in. I can then see if any new posts have appeared in threads that I have posted in. There is some script that runs, probably related to the adds the flubs my entry. So I'll end up search for JH3 or JV3, or something like that, instead of JVH3. 0 results are found. Of course I need to search again. Before the timer was 30 seconds. Sometimes I would search after 20 seconds, and it would say I need to wait 10 more seconds. Annoying, but it's just 10 more seconds. Now that resets to 25 seconds.
I would think this setting could be adjusted on a per user basis. the new policy is probably good for New users or users with a post count < 100 (non senior members) But users that have been around for over a year with 100+ or 1000+ posts are probably not robots.
Can we please change the search restrictions to take into account the user doing the search?
Thanks for your attention to this.
i asked for this over a month ago in the STICKY titled "requests from users to admins" at the top of THIS forum area...
AKA the place you should have asked instead of posting a NEW THREAD.
TRusselo said:
i asked for this over a month ago in the STICKY titled "requests from users to admins" at the top of THIS forum area...
AKA the place you should have asked instead of posting a NEW THREAD.
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Which option did you ask for?
Any reason you did not provide a link to your post?
I had seen that thread. When I read the description in post #1, it seemed that the purpose was to avoid the direct PMs of the mods and admins and wasn't about keeping additional threads from being created.
If all requests for anything related to the site are to be in that thread, then why have an entire forum dedicated to anything about the site?
And why is there not a statement in post #1 that is directly stating something like: All posts related to requests for change to the site belong in this thread.
But, there is not such a statement in post #1 of that thread or the first 10 posts of that thread. Any mod can modify any post, so it easily could be added if that is what the mods want the thread to be for.
Another thought. Let the amount of searches be determined by the number of Stars by your name. This would encourage donations to the site.
Take some base time for users that have made no donations to the site, like 30 seconds.
Each Star gives you that amount of seraches in that time frame.
Then donations would get you something more than just vanity stars.
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Another thought. Let the amount of searches be determined by the number of Stars by your name. This would encourage donations to the site.
Take some base time for users that have made no donations to the site, like 30 seconds.
Each Star gives you that amount of seraches in that time frame.
Then donations would get you something more than just vanity stars.
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What's wrong with just wanting the stars. I feel like I'm on TV.
Seriously, though, the search time limit is REALLY annoying.
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Searching the site is now limited to 1 search per 25 seconds.
If you search after 22 seconds, the 25 second timer resets.
This is horrible.
If you accidentally mistype when searching, or the scripts that are running flub your input, then 0 results are found. Obviously you aren't being malicious when modifying the search and pressing search again.
If you want to stop robotic abuse, put one of thos things in that makes you enter characters.
Or at least allow 2 searches in 50 seconds.
Or limit it to 2 in 50 seconds if 0 results were found with the initial search.
Can we please change this policy, to allow a 2nd search without delay if 0 results were found on the first search?
Normally, when I log into XDA, I search for all threads that I have posted in. I can then see if any new posts have appeared in threads that I have posted in. There is some script that runs, probably related to the adds the flubs my entry. So I'll end up search for JH3 or JV3, or something like that, instead of JVH3. 0 results are found. Of course I need to search again. Before the timer was 30 seconds. Sometimes I would search after 20 seconds, and it would say I need to wait 10 more seconds. Annoying, but it's just 10 more seconds. Now that resets to 25 seconds.
I would think this setting could be adjusted on a per user basis. the new policy is probably good for New users or users with a post count < 100 (non senior members) But users that have been around for over a year with 100+ or 1000+ posts are probably not robots.
Can we please change the search restrictions to take into account the user doing the search?
Thanks for your attention to this.
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We are working to bring the search experience back to normal and part of the reason we had tighten the search flood timers is due to a number of bots/scripts abusing the search functionality to the point where search would be overloaded and unavailable to all members. Clearly some search is better than no search. With that said, we have dropped the timer from 25 seconds to 20 seconds and will continue to tune the experience in the coming days.
Just as a possible suggestion to searching for your own posts, if you subscribe to threads (with no email notification), you can easily view if a thread has been replied to since you last visited the forum from the "User CP" paged linked to at the top of every forum page.
Regarding captchas, they are very annoying and it probably takes just as long to fill out the captcha as it would be to wait. We do have captchas for non-registered members but we unfortunately have seen bots that are logged in at the time of searches.
Thanks for your input!
Hello,
I am new here and I completely understand why you would want to prevent new users from posting too often.
However, after posting a reply I realized it was missing a word - I did preview it before, but I am exhausted today and it wasn't enough to spot the typo. I proceeded to edit my post and was told I couldn't because as a new user I have to wait 5 minutes between posts. Now I have to remember to come back in 5 minutes and edit my post.
If it is at all possible it would be great if the forum could check whether this 'new post' is instead an edition of the last post you made before blocking it.
I hope you'll consider it.
I understand the desire to keep the spammers out, but it seems that you went for the brute force approach here.
When I tried to reply to someone's message that contained a link, as new member I was not allowed to do so because my message now contained a link, even though it was only a quote. Fine.
When I wrote a message, filled out the image verification field and clicked on "preview post", I had to do image verification all over again before posting. This is simply annoying and does nothing to prevent spam, it only prevents good user experience and discourages people from previewing their posts. Maybe I don't even need to do the verification when I preview the post, I didn't experiment, but in any case this is a pretty badly constructed interface.
Finally, when I wanted to edit my post immediately after posting, I got a message that new users have to wait five minutes before posting again. Obviously, the restriction doesn't distinguish between posting a new message and editing an old one. Again, in this case it's simply annoying.
Ironically, the forum pages are teeming with flashy advertisements.
biggvsdiccvs said:
I understand the desire to keep the spammers out, but it seems that you went for the brute force approach here.
When I tried to reply to someone's message that contained a link, as new member I was not allowed to do so because my message now contained a link, even though it was only a quote. Fine.
When I wrote a message, filled out the image verification field and clicked on "preview post", I had to do image verification all over again before posting. This is simply annoying and does nothing to prevent spam, it only prevents good user experience and discourages people from previewing their posts. Maybe I don't even need to do the verification when I preview the post, I didn't experiment, but in any case this is a pretty badly constructed interface.
Finally, when I wanted to edit my post immediately after posting, I got a message that new users have to wait five minutes before posting again. Obviously, the restriction doesn't distinguish between posting a new message and editing an old one. Again, in this case it's simply annoying.
Ironically, the forum pages are teeming with flashy advertisements.
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These are measures put in place only for new users. As you post more, it'll be easier.
It's something we have to do.
Too many new user to do differently.
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I recently received this error message while attempting to update a post with a logcat attachment that I had meant to attach to the post originally but forgot to.
To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed.
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Now I know I'm not a terribly active poster, but I would hardly qualify myself as new, since I joined back in Aug. 2010. How can I go about verifying my account to avoid this in the future? Also, is this the appropriate forum, or should it go under Q&A instead.
Thank you for your assistance.
There is a lot of replies that covered your question. You need to have 30 posts to have these restriction lifted. We can't do anything about that.
Thread closed.