What is the purpose of this feature?
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What is the purpose of this feature?
I am getting this message a lot lately. Today I sent notifications of two spam messages appearing on one of the forums and have to WAIT 30 seconds before I could post the 2nd notification. Inconvenienced for trying to help?
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I am reporting SPAM messages on the E60 forum 
and have to wait! 
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I apologize as I assumed the the delay had been reduced as I had not received any additional reports since October. The purpose is to prevent a spammer from flooding the forum with posts. I'll check on Monday again to see if we can lower it, however, there will always be a delay of some sort to prevent bots from peppering the community with spam. I have removed as many as 152 spam posts on one community that turned the delay off. They were made within a 10 minute period. We do appreciate you heads up on the spam and I'll see what I can do to reduce your frustration. Thank you for letting me know!
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I recently reported two spammers and the wait was 60 seconds. Not a big deal since I usually read one or two other posts in between seeing and reporting the other annoying posts.
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I too have encountered the dreaded 60 second gap between posts, and it was also when reporting SPAM! 
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It's baaaaaaaaack!
Whatever fix you put in last time would be appreciated. Thanks!