I don't understand why it's necessary to wait a certain amount of time between reporting posts. If there is spam, then why can't I just report it? I think more people would be willing to report spam if it was easier. Today I came across quite a few spam messages and didn't report them all because it was taking too long. -Danielle
The main reason is vBulletin uses the same flood check setting for other things and it's set to 60 seconds to help combat spammers with the other stuff. I went ahead and made a custom setting for it specific to reporting posts though, so you should be able to do it every 15 seconds now.
Remember if a spammer is running loose, you do not need to report each spam post. Just report one and note fact there are others.
^I'm like that when I report posts, if there's more than one post I just go "Look below, look above" lol..
In that event you only need to make one report and tell us about the thread in question. The rest would be unnecessary.
Yup. Did a thread with three reports for three different reasons and had 60 seconds in between them. edit: Just tried it here on this thread. Please excuse the test:
Hmmmm.. ok, dug around a bit more. Apparently it does 2 flood checks. Once when you start the page and once when you finish the report (I suppose so you can't open a bunch of report forms then submit them all to bypass it). ...unfortunately the only way to intercept the call before the first check would be add some code that gets executed for every page view that checks the page we are on (report.php for example), then makes the adjustment accordingly. And not really sure it's worth the overhead of running additional code for every page view... so I guess I'm not gonna do it for now.
Not a problem and thanks for the follow up. Rather strange as it worked a few days ago. Not complaining about your coding skills, just an observation.
I think the only time it would have worked before is if you had the report form already open before the 60 second floodcheck was kicking in (like if you had 2 report post forms open before you submitted either of them).
Don;t recall doing something like that. I'm one of these people who go down the recent posts lists, do right clicks to make new tabs and then go through everything, one tab at a time. Not a biggie.
Well nothing has changes since it was first implemented, and that's the only thing I can think of that would have made it work before (opening 2 report forms before you submit the first one *should* get around the first 60 second flood check)... so not really sure.
Not a biggie. I've only had a couple of times where I've had reports on top of reports but when it happens, it;s a pain because I have to remember to come back to it. The downside of a hundred tabs open. Thanks again for the follow up, Shawn. -drmike