Because the very first person to ever post on this site other than me spammed like 10 identical threads in 5 seconds to teach me a lesson on not having post cooldowns.
Blame them.

Isn't the timer only like 10 seconds or something

>>3
15 seconds for posts, 2 minutes for threads. I just picked those numbers off the top of my head without really thinking about it. We can always adjust them to something else.

>>5
they're fine since I didn't notice them until now, taba-tan

10seconds too long