i figured it out: read this thread http://wordpress.org/support/3/14976 for an explanation (well, at least an attempt at an explanation)
cheers
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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…