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You were 38 seconds too slow performing your experiment
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Alright, you now can't merit the same post with the same amount within 60 seconds.
The timeframe is meant to cover the most frequent case scenarios, but does not cover all.
Okay now I understand the message that said, "You just merited that post....". The 2nd event and trying for the 3rd event was obviously less than 60 seconds. I know I was faster at that time.
Anyway, this was a tricky move to stop double spending and to have the same page at the same time so that if a user wants to spend more sMerits for the same user without moving to any other page. If this is the cause then it's logical to come back to the same page however if this is not the case then the user can be redirected to the topic page once the event has been handled. In this case there will be no need for the extra code to prevent spending same amount of merit in 60 seconds.
Only theymos can return the merit but I'm not sure if he will or not and I don't think it's worth the time pursing and you should just accept the loss of merits and move on in this case. However, it would be helpful if the bug was fixed so it doesn't happen again in the future so you can keep pushing for a change/fix if you wish but it certainly wouldn't be on my list of priorities (for either you or theymos).
Which list of priorities we are talking about here? Sorry, I am not a regular meta user however I do read sometimes to keep myself updated with the trend.
And I already said that I don't need those sMerit to have returned. With you, I also realize (agree) that it's worthless.
I am glad you did this thread.
I gave you some merits.
Please do not do it again.
Btw I have spent around 20 merits testing it.