Can’t post again till after 80 odd seconds

[Sharp Point]

Dare I ask what’s this new feature? Now you can’t post on the same topic until waiting nearly a minute and a half. Is this new software just trying to get you to limit the amount you add ? Another annoying function.

 

[townfanjon]

I thought it was just me typing too fast

 

[Sharp Point]

I thought it was just me typing too fast

As quick as the walk to the boozer on a Friday night?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

lets try this test .
30 ish seconds later .
works for me

 

[Sharp Point]

Eh
( 5 word rule)
And again

(5 word rule)
Yep, worked for me. So someone has changed the settings

Good people

 

[Harvest Fields]

Or it was user error?

 

[Dan]

So you don't spam the same thread with loads of replies. Just edit your existing one and it'll go through.

 

[Sharp Point]

Or it was user error?

Nope, I haven’t changed the way I type in letters and press post reply/ post. Definitely ghosts at work here

 

[OffshoreGas]

So you don't spam the same thread with loads of replies. Just edit your existing one and it'll go through.

I thought you’d done away with the edit post function? Not very obvious on a phone

 

[Sharp Point]

So you don't spam the same thread with loads of replies. Just edit your existing one and it'll go through.

But sometimes I don’t need to edit posts, just add another post

 

[Aire]

But sometimes I don’t need to edit posts, just add another post

Very annoying, you sometimes want to reply to someone's comment and then add a seperate reply to the thread, then it merges both replies into one message , can this be changed @Dan

 

[Dan]

Nope. That's exactly what it is meant to do.

You can quote the person, reply. Then simply carry on with your view or whatever. Why create a whole new post for it?

 

[Dan]

I thought you’d done away with the edit post function? Not very obvious on a phone

Once you know it's there you know it's there.

About 0.001% of people edit a post after posting. Why make it a massive button that gets in the way?

 

[Millsy 82]

I understand why this feature has to be here but it's really annoying if your answering to numerous different threads answering questions. Does it have to be so long?

 

[Ben-gee]

I agree with the above.

Why can’t we post immediately on a different thread? That makes no sense.

 

[Millsy 82]

I agree with the above.

Why can’t we post immediately on a different thread? That makes no sense.

Just reducing it down to say 30 secs would be awesome.

 

[SimonG]

You have a spare 5 minutes, come on here and cant respond to more than a couple of posts.

 

[Stu-B]

All the grumpy dinosaurs are posting in this thread

 

[Dan]

Firstly, it depends on your forum member level as to what the time is. It's different for new members than it is for arms and trusted advisors and whatnot.

Secondly, it's staying. Don't go around the forum just replying with short sentences and chatter. I know we need some banter but if you're not in that clique, it's not nice. And it's totally not useful for the thread. Which probably isn't a thread you created yourself - so why doe the thread started want loads of banter about say football when their thread is about them trying to find a certain tap or something?

It's to give you time to think about what you're writing. And to stop posting crap to the forum.

I will reduce it at some point, but right now I can still see lots of threads going off topic and whatnot.

I'll come spend a couple of weeks on here soon. Just finishing off the sparky forum. And I'll adjust all the settings again now we're getting used to this new software. And we'll see what happens then.

I am listening. Just haven't got the time always to reply or change a setting.

But the 'Word Minimum', 'Merge Double Post', and 'Thread Reply Throttling' is all part of the bigger picture to stop chatter taking threads off topic and to encourage good on-topic replies.

Make your own thread about the banter in the off-topic general chat forum area if you want bants. I'll perhaps relax all the settings in that category so you can quickly reply with one word each and make a thread massive with only 100 words in it.

But in a topic that's not yours, and is about a good topic, we want it to have nice paragraphs and lots of detail in it etc.

That takes more than 3 words, takes longer than 90 seconds to write, and doesn't require you typing three separate posts one after the next without other people replying between them.