Search and PM waiting time

  • Thread starter Thread starter Dan Robinson
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Dan Robinson

Anyone else having issues with the PM and search system requiring the waiting periods between successive actions?

If I try to send more than one private message, it's making you wait 60 seconds between each one. Searches make you wait 15 seconds between them. I know these are anti-bot measures, but I thought that you had to be logged in to do either of those.
 
Well, a common mode of spamming these days is for spammers to spend time setting up a legitimate account, then using the user list or a list of scraped names from the forum to mass-spam the entire board via PM rather than in the forums. This is brilliant because the old-school method (forum spam) gets deleted as soon as a moderator jumps to action, but the staff cannot sift through PM material, so it's very efficient at making it through. The search limits are to curb CPU drain since they are very intensive database operations.

Tim
 
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