WordPress by default should be throttling this to 15 seconds between comments. This is handled through the wp_allow_comment() function.
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pubwvj
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Could this time limit be added to the options? That would be helpful.
wp_allow_comment() is giving me a “too quickly” error every time I try to post a comment on my blog. It doesn’t matter how long I wait or which user I am logged in as.
Check the date/time on your local PC. How’s it compare to the server’s date/time?
Ok, well it’s apparently not ‘every time’ but it needs much more than 15 seconds.
My server and my local PC are both EST.
I had run into the the error before, but it seemed like it followed the 15 second delay. The only thing I could think that changed between when I saw it before is I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1.
Found it. Like the person in this thread, I had accidentally set a comment’s timestamp to be Dec 07 instead of Dec 06. Since any post I make now (Feb 07) is not 15 seconds latter than Dec 07, the spam blocker would always be tripped.
