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I do believe that will work. As you say, it should be pretty rare for a second comment to take under 15 seconds to compose, unless it's cut-and-paste or very trivial. Thank you!
– John Rudy
Commented Jan 24, 2010 at 17:25
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It is an improvement, but why keep resetting the timer? It is much better to keep it at 30 seconds or even more, but not reset the timer.. I think this will frustrate users instead of educating them.
– Andreas Bonini
Commented Jan 24, 2010 at 17:29
Why the timer reset? I disagree with the timer = quality argument, but even if I did agree, 30 or 45 seconds if you miscount is way too long. All it does is encourage you to lose your train of thought. It's impolite.
– jnm2
Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 19:50
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Just taking 15 seconds to tell you how I hate this stupid, obnoxious behavior.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Commented Jul 12, 2014 at 21:37
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Why is the site going out of its way to be annoying?
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Commented Jul 13, 2014 at 10:50
@Gilles Your sequence of protesting comments appears to be misplaced, given that Jeff Atwood no longer sets these policies.
– user259867
Commented Oct 12, 2014 at 20:56

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