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08-20-2008
| ![[Blaze]'s Avatar](http://www.mmowned.com/forums/customavatars/avatar33166_3.gif) | Contributor | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Reputation: 141 Level up: 75%, 226 Points needed |    | | | Search Spamming
KuRIoS said that reducing the limit would make spammers and bots abuse the search and cause major problems... Well I've come to a solution!
A search Q and A, simple questions anyone in their right mind could do.
EX.
"How many ears does an average human have?"
Answer: 2
I think this could be the way to reduce the search cooldown without having spammers.
Not saying do away with the timer just reduce it to 20 seconds.
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08-20-2008
| ![[F]ear's Avatar](http://www.mmowned.com/forums/customavatars/avatar180221_1.gif) | Contributor | | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Heaven
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Reputation: 142 Level up: 71%, 268 Points needed | | | | To be honest, I think there is no problem with the timer. It's not like you feel like spamming a message every 1 sec anyway. But bots and other software can be annoying.
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08-20-2008
| ![[Spirit]'s Avatar](http://www.mmowned.com/forums/customavatars/avatar327347_1.gif) | Contributor | | | Join Date: Aug 2008
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Reputation: 106 Level up: 90%, 70 Points needed | | | | Well to be honst, I think it should be a little shorter than 45 seconds....
But hey, the mods know best, so maybe it IS the best time limit for beating bots... |
08-20-2008
|  | Elite User | | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Denmark
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Reputation: 410 Points: 13,032, Level: 14 | Level up: 57%, 568 Points needed | | | | i think its connected with another timer i dunno. (which means if you change that you will change the other timer too)
But yeah its pretty annoying (just like the report timer)
Last edited by Viter; 08-20-2008 at 12:30 PM.
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08-20-2008
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: phpMyAscent
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Reputation: 143 Level up: 40%, 543 Points needed | | | | How about we reduce the timer to a rank? That would be alot better. |
08-20-2008
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Imagination Land
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Reputation: 180 Level up: 75%, 285 Points needed | | | | Ya the search timer is too long.
Last edited by *ChAoS*; 08-20-2008 at 11:36 PM.
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08-20-2008
|  | Archer | | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Reputation: 447 Level up: 84%, 183 Points needed | | | | It's quite annoying when you don't find anything on a search, but you know something else you could try that might throw up a result (and does -.-) yet can't search it. Something to stop spam searching would be good, but I don't think it would be smart to lower the timer without another measure. |
08-20-2008
|  | Site Donator  Legendary User | | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: British Columbia
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Nominated 10 Times in 4 Posts Reputation: 703 Points: 20,953, Level: 20 | Level up: 10%, 1,447 Points needed | | | | This has been discussed before.
But, I feel that lowering the timer (maybe lower as you rank up, an extra incentive for ranks like Donator) is a good idea.
However, you would need to implement perhaps a 'Captcha' or some other Anti-bot security check - which no one would mind - and still stop all of the bots.
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08-20-2008
| | Contributor | | | Join Date: Aug 2008
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Reputation: 106 Level up: 90%, 70 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellgawd  This has been discussed before.
But, I feel that lowering the timer (maybe lower as you rank up, an extra incentive for ranks like Donator) is a good idea.
However, you would need to implement perhaps a 'Captcha' or some other Anti-bot security check - which no one would mind - and still stop all of the bots. | Well I would mind if you had to enter a captcha EVERY search, but I wouldnt mind if it was once in a while... |
08-20-2008
| | Banned | | | Join Date: Jan 2008
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Nominated 1 Times in 1 Post Reputation: 179 Level up: 49%, 567 Points needed | | | | The search timer is too long IMO... make it like 20 seconds |
08-20-2008
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On mah computer
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08-20-2008
|  | Understanding Legendary User | | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: MONEY
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Reputation: 689 Points: 14,378, Level: 15 | Level up: 56%, 622 Points needed | | | | Don't say /signed Ease.
Well, I think the search should have captcha. I don't mind doing a little puzzle that takes like 3 seconds rather than wait 40 seconds or whatever. |
08-21-2008
| | Site n00b.. (A leecher if I've been here for more than a month and can't earn 5 rep) | | | Join Date: Mar 2008
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Reputation: 3 | | | I think it's fine the way it is |
08-21-2008
|  | Mr. Negative Himself | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Over there ->
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Reputation: 466 Points: 12,619, Level: 14 | Level up: 25%, 981 Points needed | | | | 45 seconds does seem way too long, especially when most of the searches you do will give you 10 pages of things, so usually you do multiple searches to refine it down a bit... |
08-21-2008
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Dec 2006
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Reputation: 176 Level up: 35%, 716 Points needed | | | | I don't see what the 45 second problem is... Patience? | | |
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