Odd message

College Confidential Community
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I ran a search and got the following message. What’s going on?

This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between searches. Please try again in 33 seconds.

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It means that you can only search the forums once a minute. Even looking at poster’s threads is considered a search.

Edit: Oh…I see what you mean…it says 30 seconds. That’s odd!

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HAHA I got the same message today:

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I’ve tried making multiple posts in 1 minute. the time thing goes something like this “12 seconds left” then “18 seconds left” then “6 seconds left” then “54 seconds left” then “1 second left” then I get to post (repeatedly pressing alt+s)

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It means that you are traveling backwards in time. :smiley:

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venkat: it does the same thing to me all the time!
I should probably stop the constant clicking…

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I just got it, LOL, made my day:

This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between searches. Please try again in 88 seconds.

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Would anyone that posted to this thread, list the following for me so i can look into this issue:

Browser & Version
ISP
Operating System

Also try deleteing your browser cache and cookies, ive never gotten this message like that before on any vb site, so id like the above info to see if i can dig into it more.

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I just checked that I know how to reproduce it, and I just now got:

This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between searches. Please try again in 91 seconds.

All I did was try a search that failed, tried another that failed, and then tried one that I know would have succeeded.

Safari 2.0.4
My employer <a href=“http://www.efi.com%5B/url%5D”>www.efi.com</a>
MacOS X 10.4.8

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It does the same thing with Internet Explorer on Win2k. I searched in both cases from the Advanced form. I now think it does this after any search which fails, at least from Advanced.

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So, your saying you are trying to search again before the first 30 seconds are gone?

I’d never run a mac, so there is no way i can ever try to see if its something in safari or a combination of both.

I have no issues using gentoo/ff or winblowz/ff/ie.

Did you try what i recomended?

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Well, the first message says nothing was found, but doesn’t say to wait before trying the next search. The same thing can happen with the second or third searches (I change what I’m searching for each time to different garbage). At some point the wait message appears; it seems to have saved up the number of seconds from the first search which failed (I just got 106). It doesn’t always happen this way.

I reproduced the same thing with IE on Win2k.

No, but I tried it on the Win2k PC where I had never run CC before; it happened the first time.

After the first seach fails, are we allowed to try another search before the 30 seconds expire? Should the message say:

"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms in 30 seconds."

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Running Firefox 2.01 on Windows XP.

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I’ve gotten the strange timing thing before, too. I thought it was my signal that I’m getting way too crazy searching on cc

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It’s still happening.

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The message cracks me up every time I see it. I’m running Mac OS X with Firefox.