Flood Count/Limit

[Gizmo]

What are your thoughts on a forums flood count/limit? Basically it's that thing that comes up saying you have to wait 1-2 minutes before posting a new post.

Some forums don't have it while some do.

 

[McConnaughay]

It depends on the forum. Some communities (and some posters, for that matter) associate success or worth to their Post Count. You see a lot of spam. Forums like this one (but not this one, not yet) see a lot of it because users want to get their "contributions" out of the way, get their "Cash", and promote their shit.

I find it a little soulless, personally.

That's just me.

As a general rule of thumb, I believe things are usually better when people give a little thought to what they say.

 

[Nebulous]

HATE them!!! I am a fast poster and I can go from topic to topic pretty quickly. If I keep getting hit with time limits, I wont stick around that forum for long. The days of spam bots flooding your forum with posts are pretty much over, so there is no real need for it.

 

[Cory]

I don't like when flood count is enabled when I'm trying to post, especially doing post exchanges or post packages for board owners, but I think it can be somewhat essential to have a slight delay in posting to prevent mass spamming, otherwise, the user could create a post/topic and just go back to the previous page in their browser and constantly submit the same thing over and over again.