Just a thought of a way to be a little more 'helpful' with the 90 second post rule.

It's seriously like hitting a brick wall. How about a meta refresh timed for after your limit expires, or even just a visual countdown we could use to know to refresh the page then to post? :D

Any takers?

It couldn't be live in real-time because that would hog bandwidth. I suppose a basic JavaScript countdown timer would be possible but a bit of a hassle to implement.
Nice ideas though.

Originally posted by effusionx1
It couldn't be live in real-time because that would hog bandwidth. I suppose a basic JavaScript countdown timer would be possible but a bit of a hassle to implement.
Nice ideas though.

How would it hog bandwidth? just the same page you see now but with "Note: If you stay here you will be automatically redirected in <x> seconds" using a <meta> tag for the refresh. :)

It wouldn't hog bandwidth, but it would probably use a good amount of server resources.

Ah sorry, I misunderstood - you want a meta refresh. I thought you wanted the database and PHP to keep changing the number every second!

oops..

It would actually be very very easy to add some Javascript to the page which counts down the number of seconds until you can post again, and then enables a button on the screen which says "Resubmit post now".

With any luck, Prohacker might see this useful enough to implement sometime soon on WHT.

What I do when encountering the limit for posts, or the 20-sec limit on searches, is obsessive-compulsively hit the 'back' button in my browser and resubmit, and repeat until done. I guess I do this out of a vindictive desire to deliberately eat up server resources for the purposes of revenge. I dunno, though, IANAP.

Jeremy is right, it's very simple. What [I would hope] vB does is store the date when you can post again. If you compare the two dates, you will get a time between 1 and 90 seconds. Then using JS, you can disable the Search button with a timer under it. Equally simple whether the data is stored as a cookie or a session, though I would assume session since people could just delete the relevant cookie and do the post.

However, if they store the date the last post was made [not when you can post again], this will be a _lot_ harder, and would take quite a bit of work to change since a lot of things rely on the last post.

Setting a simple cookie, not to control, but more for "advice" as to when the person can repost, and then use javascript to manipulate the data to create a time would be swanky.