Configure the Global Delay Between Live Messages

QCLF’s Administrator Delay Between User Messages setting defines the server-enforced baseline cooldown for each signed-in user sending live Messages. The default is 5 seconds and the accepted range is 0 through 300 seconds.

Session Slow Mode can raise the effective delay, but it cannot lower the session below the current global baseline.

Set the Baseline Delay

  1. Open Components → QC Live Forum → Settings.
  2. In the Live Chat settings card, find Delay Between User Messages (seconds).
  3. Enter a value from 0 to 300.
  4. Save Settings and test from a normal live participant account.

What the Delay Means

For each session/user pair, QCLF looks at that user’s most recent live Message in the session. If the configured effective interval has not elapsed, the server rejects the next send and reports how many seconds remain.

The browser mirrors this with a disabled/send-countdown state, but the server-side check is authoritative.

Zero Disables the Baseline

A global value of 0 disables the baseline cooldown. It does not guarantee zero delay during every session because an active session can carry a higher Slow Mode value.

How Slow Mode Combines with It

The effective live-message delay is the larger of the current global baseline and the session’s stored Slow Mode seconds. Slow Mode therefore cannot weaken the administrator’s global minimum.

New sessions are seeded with the baseline as their session Slow Mode value. If the global delay is later lowered during an existing session, use the live Slow Mode control’s Off/base choice to bring that session back to the new baseline when appropriate.

Applies Across Live Topic Types

The same common live-message service is used by standalone Live Chat and the chat panes inside Watch Party and Live Broadcast. The per-user delay applies to their live Message sends as well.

Community Discussion

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