why 180

[BoliverAllmon]

why did you change it back to posting once every 180 seconds. That is crap. 60 was bad enough, but come on.

[nilsjohan]

Yes, it is "crap" but it is only to limit the harm of spam attacks such as earlier today when the forum was filled with extremely offensive posts.

[BoliverAllmon]

hire some more moderators then don't punish us.

[I Love Xenakis]

I couldn't agree more.  No reason to punish those of us who haven't done anything wrong.

Well...  I mean like... the people that haven't done anything wrong.  I don't really fit into that category ^^;;


I'll be a mod 

[rimv2]

Yes, it is "crap" but it is only to limit the harm of spam attacks such as earlier today when the forum was filled with extremely offensive posts.

Every forum has spammers. Putting a limit on posting just means they have to make the one post they make a good one. NO other forum I've visited has such a weird limit and they all seem to function just fine.

Plus 180 seconds just means they can only do half as much damage. It wont stop them.

Think about it logically.

IF they were truly immature enough to wait 90 seconds for a spam attack, there's nothing in the world you can do to prevent such happenings.

PLEASE STOP MAKING OTHERS SUFFER FOR THE ACTIONS OF A FEW

[nilsjohan]

The forum was spammed by someone "working" a few hours to fill the forum with a large number of long posts containing porn and very obscene sexual texts.
During the following six hours after this happened the posting limit was set to 180 seconds to limit further attacks while we had no one here that could watch the forum.
It is a rather time consuming job to clean this up, especially when they are inside topics and people has replied to those posts. I can assure you we have better and more interesting things to do over here.

PLEASE STOP MAKING OTHERS SUFFER FOR THE ACTIONS OF A FEW

I couldn't agree more.
Are you aware that the  limit was 180 only for some hours and then decreased to 90? It was back to 60 a few days later.
If some of you have suffered from this I am terribly sorry, but it was one of several actions taken as a temporary state of alert.
If this really can prevent the harm to "half as much damage" for our 3000 daily readers I think it is worth it. Even if I think about it logically.

[I Love Xenakis]

Thank you for admitting you were wrong, and we will consider accepting your apology

[stevie]

in case you arent aware, dogadoo is the same person that posted similar stuff back at chopinfiles many times, under different names

he kept coming back, i found it hilarious, but some may not, and i can understand fart.

[brewtality]

in case you arent aware, dogadoo is the same person that posted similar stuff back at chopinfiles many times, under different names

he kept coming back, i found it hilarious, but some may not, and i can understand fart.

I don't see what's so funny about it, any fool can copy-cut from a random porn site.

[stevie]

its not porn, its cleverly written obscene CG

[brewtality]

its not porn, its cleverly written obscene CG

Please, it's just some random copy-pasting from sites. It's really lame and not remotely funny.

[stevie]

but its not porn, its not remotely arrausing

[nilsjohan]

but its not porn, its not remotely arrausing

Do you think the piano teachers who have recommended this website to their pupils (not to mention those kids' parents) care whether you find it "arrausing" or not?

[stevie]

some may 

just correcting brew, that those type of things arent written for porn sites, or anything intended  for claudio arrausal.
they are from humour sites, and are meant to be funny, mildly.

[BoliverAllmon]

how do you know where they came from? maybe cuz you are dogadoo? HHMMMMM.....let the conspiracies begin. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[stevie]

[brewtality]

Stevie, if that was you all this time, I want you to know that it was really bloody annoying. Worse than the time you and Boliver spammed the boards.

[stevie]

hahaha, twasnt me

and the spamming was boliver's fault

[rimv2]

hahaha, twasnt me

and the spamming was boliver's fault

It is strange, this assumption that a person would go through the trouble of creating another account just to wreak havoc when one's IP is glued to each post- no matter the name of the account.

[Bob]

Is there a way to block their IP address and user name if they spam like that?

Or let members "earn" their way to a lower or no time limit?  Something like after 100 posts, you have no time limit maybe?

[BoliverAllmon]

It is strange, this assumption that a person would go through the trouble of creating another account just to wreak havoc when one's IP is glued to each post- no matter the name of the account.

the names get banned not IP's.

I also plead the fifth about the spamming. I simply don't recall. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[cziffra]

there is such a thing as an IP block...

[BoliverAllmon]

was not aware of that. Isn't there ways around it though?if you have dial up you get a new IP each time you log on.

[folkert]

why not make some of the regulares moderator?