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Sonia Balagopalan comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2546)

Sonia Balagopalan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:02:38 -0800

Sometimes when you try to get the full (>5) comment thread, it gives you this above mentioned error message, which is has to be a bug. You're probably lucky enough never to have seen it!

CSiegel comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2544)

CSiegel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:38:31 -0800

I know how to get comments past 5, but that doesn't seem to be what people are referring to as fetching comments, rather it SEEMS that they mean that they are updating the comment thread without reloading the whole page.

Sonia Balagopalan comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2543)

Sonia Balagopalan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:35:05 -0800

There's a link with 'add/show n more comments' right under the list of comments. This only pertains to comment threads that have more than 5 comments. I guess you have to refresh the page to see new comment that have been added since you last loaded the page.

CSiegel comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2541)

CSiegel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:04:30 -0800

Ok...perhaps this is just me being unobservant, but how do you fetch comments without reloading the whole page? I've been looking and not seen a button at all.

Scott Morrison comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2233)

Scott Morrison — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:05:29 -0800

Yeah, I just got this for the first time recently, and it was indeed annoying. I've put a request on meta.stackexchange, please vote for it!

Mariano comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2153)

Mariano — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:57:15 -0800

Yeah. That pretty much defeats what I imagine is the point, lowering the load on the server, for a reload of the page surely implies more work than the ajax-y request for the comments!

rwbarton comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2152)

rwbarton — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:54:35 -0800

"You may only fetch comments every 2 seconds."

Most irritatingly, when I get this message, the link to fetch comments disappears, but the relevant comments do not appear, so I cannot even try again in 2 seconds without reloading the page.

Pete L. Clark comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (2133)

Pete L. Clark — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:57:42 -0800

I changed my mind -- I am now relatively accustomed to the message above, and the following one that I have been getting more recently is hella annoying:

"You may only fetch comments every 2 seconds."

To me, this is the absurd conclusion to the trend of bugs being pawned off as features. I can appreciate that when someone was writing the code, they thought it would wise to put in something which checks when comments are being posted too rapidly and acts accordingly. (This piece of code is obviously broken, but the point is that I can at least appreciate why someone wrote it.) But someone sat down and said, "Gee, I'm worried about people going fetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetchfetch all day. I had better put something in the code to prevent this"? C'mon!

Scott Morrison comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1470)

Scott Morrison — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:39:14 -0800

I think voting for a comment and actually commenting both count towards the 30 second cutoff. This wasn't immediately obvious to me form the StackExchange message, but it did end up explaining a lot of the "spurious" complaints.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1439)

Anton Geraschenko — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:03:11 -0800

This is already on the list of bug-reports/feature-requests you should vote on; see this meta.SE post.

Harry Gindi comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1437)

Harry Gindi — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:51:23 -0800

This might have something to do with it:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23595/spaces-getting-past-minimum-character-limit/23618#23618

Michael Lugo comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1436)

Michael Lugo — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:50:08 -0800

I've gotten "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" quite a bit. Thankfully, waiting 30 seconds seems to fix it.

David Zureick-Brown comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1433)

David Zureick-Brown — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:34:01 -0800

Agreed.

Akhil Mathew comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1428)

Akhil Mathew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:33 -0800

Same for "submit a comment vote"

Ben Webster comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1427)

Ben Webster — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:55:36 -0800

Pete L. Clark comments on "You may only submit a comment once every 30 seconds" (1422)

Pete L. Clark — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:13:21 -0800

...is a message that I have gotten dozens of times, but never when I have submitted a comment in the last 30 seconds.

Of all the bugs I have encountered on MO, this is the only one that actually annoys me. Can something be done about it, please?