You should add a flood protection to this.

why is this always brought up whenever somebody posts a snippet involving any number of outgoing messages? it really does nothing to improve the signal to noise ratio of the comments section.

the submission is a 75 line script, of a reasonable standard and complete with comments. to point out something so mundane as the absence of a couple of basic lines of code is a little insulting to the poster, don't you think? if the comment were made with at least a casual reference to the idea or the main parts of the script in question, i, as the submitter, might be more inclined to appreciate the suggestion.

also, have you guys noticed that there are far fewer complaints about a script causing problematic flooding than there are suggestions to add flood protection?

yes, ensuring your scripts do not cause you to be disconnected from the server is worth considering. but posting the same comment to every single snippet on hawkee is a bit much, in my opinion. if there was an FAQ section on the site, this would be a good place to discuss the issue. since different servers/networks have different flood thresholds, the advice should be directed to those who are experiencing problems with causing flood, not script authors whose function is simply to introduce an idea.

keep in mind mIRC has its own native outgoing flood protection through the queuing and potential discarding of messages (mIRC options -> IRC -> Flood). the problem, if there is one, should be tackled globally, or on a per server basis, rather than per script.