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hmm. it may be nice but the only thing is what if your project got on the front page or your a famous scratcher or something and you want to be nice and thank everyone who said something like "Nice Project!" the 60-second rule could get annoying there.

so 6-7 comments/ 20 seconds? yes that would probably be more reasonable. 

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I like this idea - it reduces spam quite a bit, and it isn't annoying. I think even three comments within sixty seconds is reasonable.

steppenwulf wrote:

The way the comment system works right now is that if you keep entering messages with the same, or too similar text in it, it won't submit. That works fine, except that I saw one user spamming comments by inserting random letters (ei. Eueueueeu- theerrere- fafdfafasdfsa -as fafdfadfadfad- afadfvveee) like every 2 seconds, and spammed about 400 comments that way.

To fix that, there should be another limit. A good idea would be if the user enters more than six or seven comments within 60 seconds, he/she would have to wait another 20 seconds to enter more comments. What do you guys think? Any suggestions?

How it takes about ten minuets just to post a reply on the forums, I wouldn't give them an idea. Cause' in all honesty, and I'm not trying to be mean here, but who would waste thier vaulable time spamming a forum that almost 0% of the world know, or cares about.

SovietRussia wrote:

who would waste thier vaulable time spamming a forum that almost 0% of the world know, or cares about.

Scratch is very popular, and many people from all over the world use the Scratch website. And, each day the Scratch forums suffer from commercial spammers - I think someone said that they get one every hour.

Jonathanpb wrote:

SovietRussia wrote:

who would waste thier vaulable time spamming a forum that almost 0% of the world know, or cares about.

Scratch is very popular, and many people from all over the world use the Scratch website. And, each day the Scratch forums suffer from commercial spammers - I think someone said that they get one every hour.

That's a bit of an overstatement, but we definitely do get more than one every day.

Scratch is actually a relatively popular website in comparison to some... It's worth spamming 

Thanks for the support everyone 

What do you think about four comments a minute, and keep the 20 second wait? That way, "famous" people can reply to enough comments a minute without a super long wait, and spammers will be discouraged to spam.

Great idea, but it should be less than 60 seconds.

NOOOO! I'm not a spammer but I can view 25 ppm (Projects per minute). I comment on projects all the time. I don't like this.

There have been cases of commercial spammers spamming on the main site via comments and galleries instead of the forums, likewise it could prevent massive project link spam; I can see how a time limit could be useful here. Granted such a thing would make my commenting back process a bit slower, but I wouldn't mind it. Something like 30 seconds to 60 seconds would be reasonable. 

[EDIT: corrected my comment]

Last edited by cheddargirl (2010-10-09 00:28:19)

cheddargirl wrote:

There have been cases of commercial spammers spamming on the main site via comments and galleries instead of the forums, likewise it could prevent massive project link spam; I can see how a time limit could be useful here. Granted such a thing would make my commenting back process a bit slower, but I wouldn't mind it. Something like 30 minutes to 60 minutes would be reasonable. 

That's going way too far.
Lets make it like the forums.
New Scratchers have to wait ten minutes between comments (to stop spam) and we have to wait only one minute.

Wait! That's also going overboard.