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Why the 10 second search delay?

Hi guys,

I keep getting held up by TB when looking over the boards with a message advising I have to wait 10 seconds between searches. This sounds like a small thing but can get really annoying.

Why the 10 seconds? Most boards I know have a 1 second delay to protect against bot-induced service degradation, but 10 seconds negatively effects the UX (well, my UX anyway).

I'll state for the record I don't have any desire to crawl your site, but just working in the biz I'm curious why you felt it appropriate to implement such an annoyingly loooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg forced wait time.
 

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