I think it's because most of the spam mostly occurs around these part of town and the authorities don't want to make spam to flow even faster with fast reply.
Well, To be honest, I haven`t got a clue. I`ve never used it anyway.
Hando may have an idea as he originally designed the forums, But i`m
reasonably sure that this is the default way the forum software is set-up
out of the box, But i could be wrong.
Yeah I know it has, ever since the board software update.
To be honest, I only noticed it a while ago and only thought to bring it up when I remembered how useful it was.