FLOOD CONTROL IS FUCKED

[Pissed_Macman]

FIX IT, OR ELSE!!

EDIT: Wow, it posted this time. The flood control thing has kept me from posting for more than a week.

[ February 20, 2004: Message edited by: Macman: flood control is fucked ]

[flap]

No, the clock is fucked. When the clock is wrong (as it frequently is) it thinks you've posted in the future, which is obviously more recent than 60 seconds ago.

[Xeen]

A few times over the last 2 weeks the server had gone down and when it came back up the clock would be 2 days ahead. Runpuck always fixes it, but if you post within that time, flood-control makes you wait until the same date arrives again.

So on February 18, the clock at the MES was set to Feb 20 for a few hours. If you post something within that time (Feb 20), and then the clock gets fixed back to Feb 18, it makes you wait until Feb 20 actually arrives before you can post again because otherwise it thinks you have gone back in time to try to spam it

[WMD]

Yeah I got this error for a few days last week.

[restin256]

Me too, I wonder why nobody else got it. I thought it was something wrong with my clock, silly me.

[Stilly]

I haven't been getting it

but i dont post that much

[Pissed_Macman]

quote:Originally posted by The Stiller:
I haven't been getting it

but i dont post that much

LMAO STILLER WAS PWNED BY HIMSELF LOLOLOLOL

[mobrien_12]

Ok it sounds like this is what's happening is like

IF ((posttime-lastposttime)< (60 seconds))
   THEN
       Flood control
   ELSE
       allow post
ENDIF

The easy fix would be to change the if statement to read

IF (ABS(posttime-lastposttime)< (60 seconds))

Where ABS is the absolute value function.
Then even if the clock gets messed up again, the worst thing that can happen in the flood control is active only for 60 seconds.

[Canadian Lover]

quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
Ok it sounds like this is what's happening is like

IF ((posttime-lastposttime)< (60 seconds))
   THEN
       Flood control
   ELSE
       allow post
ENDIF

The easy fix would be to change the if statement to read

IF (ABS(posttime-lastposttime)< (60 seconds))

Where ABS is the absolute value function.
Then even if the clock gets messed up again, the worst thing that can happen in the flood control is active only for 60 seconds.

This is not a PHP based foum.

[hm_murdock]

and therefore your logic seems to be that basic programming ideas cannot apply to the forum since it isn't PHP

this is a poor assumption. being that it uses CGI scripting, I would say you are in fact a gimp

[Canadian Lover]

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
and therefore your logic seems to be that basic programming ideas cannot apply to the forum since it isn't PHP

this is a poor assumption. being that it uses CGI scripting, I would say you are in fact a gimp

I know CGI, abs() is not a perl finction, retard

[flap]

Yes it is.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/abs.html

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by flap:
Yes it is.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/abs.html

I think he meant PHP, therefore everyone is a retard.