comment problem: slow down, cowboy

  • everytime i’m trying to post a comment (from work at my own server running wp at home), i’m getting this response: Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 10 seconds. Slow down cowboy. (commenting works flawlessly at home!)
    it has been since that for a couple of days now (i even counted to 10mississippi…)
    anyway, where does wp store the info (tracking IP addresses?!?) to display this message and how do i get rid of it?
    thanks
    joe

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  • maybe you are double clicking? eek, sorry I can’t be very helpful on this one.

    Thread Starter jwibi

    (@jwibi)

    i figured it out.
    it wasn’t easy though
    what happened was that i changed the timestap of one comment and unintentionally set it to a value in the future. and everytime i tried to post a new comment led to a negative number when comparing now with the last comment date. the code in the php file does not compare the net value (for the 10 seconds) but rather ask whether the difference is < 10, so comparing the future with now always yields a negative number and thus <10 is true and leads to the infamous “slow down, cowboy”.(you still with me?)
    the only thing i don’t understand is: the comment “in the future” was still posted…
    anyway, it’s solved and i’m happy…

    haha! that is brilliant! i’m glad you fixed the problem. So…how was the future?

    The future is just like the past, only later.

    I’m having the same issue with running my blog on a VMWare virtual. The time sync in VMWare isn’t quite right, every time the server reboots and it resyncs the clock, it sets the time back a day or so.

    Commenting out the following two lines in ‘./wp-include/comment-function.php’ removes the check:

    // do_action(‘comment_flood_trigger’, $time_lastcomment,
    $time_newcomment);
    // die( __(‘Sorry, you can only post a new comment once
    every 15 seconds. Slow down cowboy.’) );

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