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Old 07-26-2010, 10:22 AM   #1
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What's with the "you have to wait 30 seconds between searches thing?

Why is this?
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Old 07-26-2010, 10:39 AM   #2
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What's with the "you have to wait 30 seconds between searches thing?

Why is this?
Most forums have something like this, and I have no idea why. It's so annoying!
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Old 07-26-2010, 08:20 PM   #3
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lol ya, i too find this sort of annoying... I think it's for spammers and stuff...
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I always just thought it was so people couldn't overload the forum by running endless searches...

It is annoying as hell though.

Especially if the first search didn't turn up what you were looking for...
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Old 07-26-2010, 08:47 PM   #5
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But yet we are the first to say "GO SEARCH!"
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Old 07-26-2010, 10:02 PM   #6
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I always just thought it was so people couldn't overload the forum by running endless searches...

It is annoying as hell though.

Especially if the first search didn't turn up what you were looking for...
Mmm that makes more sense
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i have never ran into this issue... usually i spend more than 30 seconds looking at what the search brought up
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