Don't count Correct Answers towards the exclusion period.
I just got locked out for submitting 3 correct answers within a minute. (getting prime factors and summing digits isn't really a hard problem, at least, with the given numbers).
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Yes, but twenty seconds to select, read, solve, and submit an answer is perhaps beyond the capabilities of most members?
In fact, I'm afraid that it is not possible to exclude correct answers. The script is an acivity log and operates before and independently of any database handling. If I had to modify the script to check if the answer were correct before it was confirmed that more than three activities had been logged within a minute it would defeat the purpose of writing a script to block "brute force hacks". In other words, the script is designed to stop the database being hammered by hackers.
The "three count" was chosen so that users don't play the game of computing an answer and then, if it is incorrect, check the values either side as a matter of habit. After all, it is not so much about the answer as the algorithm that provides the answer; not an approximate answer.
In fact, I'm afraid that it is not possible to exclude correct answers. The script is an acivity log and operates before and independently of any database handling. If I had to modify the script to check if the answer were correct before it was confirmed that more than three activities had been logged within a minute it would defeat the purpose of writing a script to block "brute force hacks". In other words, the script is designed to stop the database being hammered by hackers.
The "three count" was chosen so that users don't play the game of computing an answer and then, if it is incorrect, check the values either side as a matter of habit. After all, it is not so much about the answer as the algorithm that provides the answer; not an approximate answer.