What are your thoughts on the "flood protection" for wall posts?

I don't know about you, but I frequently post on other users' walls and my wall is posted on with relative frequency. Unfortunately, because of the flood protection, it's pretty much impossible to have a quick and easy chat with users.
 
I get that we can use PM's, but I feel that PM's are best left for lengthy and substantive private discussions rather than commenting on a user's status and/or letting them know about something cool. With the limit of two consecutive posts, though, this doesn't really work out too well, and I'm instead forced to resort to PM'ing someone, then waiting until they check their inbox.

I for one am not a fan. How about you?

I'm with you on this one, BiggerBomb. It gets pretty annoying at times. I can understand it being active on the forums, but not on user walls. Hopefully, if enough people vote in this thing, it'll get brought to the attention of Snide, Coonce and the other web design guys, and maybe they'll do something about it. In the meantime, it's a no from me.

"I'm with you on this one, BiggerBomb. It gets pretty annoying at times. I can understand it being active on the forums, but not on user walls. Hopefully, if enough people vote in this thing, it'll get brought to the attention of Snide, Coonce and the other web design guys, and maybe they'll do something about it. In the meantime, it's a no from me. "

The staff are pretty adamant that this won't be changed. However, there have been suggestions made to improve the flood protection without removing it altogether. Unfortunately I am unable to find them.

"The staff are pretty adamant that this won't be changed. However, there have been suggestions made to improve the flood protection without removing it altogether. Unfortunately I am unable to find them."

It needs to have flood protection, but 2 posts in a row can be inconvenient. They should do 2 posts in a row per day, that would solve most problems.

Wall's are really there for the "lulz you got pwnzored!" type of comments, those brief and perhaps "in-joke" style comments. If you want extended discussion over a topic then thats why we have private messages and forums.

One thing you can do to aid a friend being able to post on your wall for a third time in a row is simply to have yourself post on your own wall so they can then continue.

You can't post on your own wall any more. Not since the redesign.

"Wall's are really there for the "lulz you got pwnzored!" type of comments, those brief and perhaps "in-joke" style comments. If you want extended discussion over a topic then thats why we have private messages and forums.One thing you can do to aid a friend being able to post on your wall for a third time in a row is simply to have yourself post on your own wall so they can then continue."

"BiggerBomb said:

"Hamz said:

"Wall's are really there for the "lulz you got pwnzored!" type of comments, those brief and perhaps "in-joke" style comments. If you want extended discussion over a topic then thats why we have private messages and forums.One thing you can do to aid a friend being able to post on your wall for a third time in a row is simply to have yourself post on your own wall so they can then continue."

What if I posted two comments on danK's wall a week ago, no one posts on his wall for a week, and then, a week later, I want to comment on something new? I can't. =/"

Yeah, this has happened to me MANY times. Really annoying, I wish we could decide on the limit ourselves, or just remove it altogether."

I don't really think there needs to be a flood protection for the walls. If you don't want somebody writing on it over and over again, you should be able to block them or set a limit on them of some sort.

It's stupid as hell, and the "go to PM" thing is a lame response. PMs are widely seen as more formal, and wall posts are public, quicker, and easier. That said, there really is no good reason why there should be flood protection on wall posts. It seems like a glitch that nobody wants to bother fixing. If that's the case (which I'm guessing it is), someone could at least just say "yeah, we're not going to fix that glitch" instead of making up lame-ass shit to justify it.

I think there should just be an option to turn on or off the flood protection for walls.