I have the flood check set to 180 but new users are still able to register and send messages every 20 seconds or so.

Guys, is the flood check working for anyone?

Three minutes seems like quite a long time. Mine is set for 10 seconds, but can't really test it myself since it doesn't pertain to Admins/Mods... I'm wondering what values others use?

The flood control is only for posting topics/replies. I've got it set to 30 seconds on my devel board and it's working ok. It doesn't throttle registrations or private messages however.

I have it set to 180 but some spammer registered and I think he replied in like 30 topics in under 15 mins.

Unfortunately I erased this guy and his posts from within the CP, but I'll try to make a 'print screen' the next time something like this happens.

P.S. Is the edit feature fully safe now? Before even with an edit time limit of 5 mins users could edit their messages indefinitely as long as they simply opened the edit page within those 5 minutes...

I use 5 minutes for the floodcheck, and 30 minutes for the edit post timer; both seem to work well

FIVE MINUTES?? Between posts???

Mine's like 10 SECONDS and I never had a problem.

Dag...! Good thing you're an Admin/Mod then, to spam at will... cuz to me that's a REALLY LONG time for everyone else!!!

lol, well it varies the forum; i have several communities... my main is 30 seconds, and another forum is 5 minutes

Guys, I think I know where the bug is:

All new registrations have the flood check set to 0, which basically means that the flood check is automatically switched off for each user upon registration (the setting needs to be blank in order for the global setting to take effect).

Is this fixed in 7.1?

Hmm, it's supposed to have a default value of -1 for the field. I'll alter the adduser script to make sure that it sets new registrations to -1 for 7.1