How come there's a delay for downloading mods?

[SlyCoopersButt]

I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering what the 10 second delay between each download is for. When I first started modding it was a 25 second delay. Is it based on some sort of leveling system on here or something?

[Kaz Aanh]

Most likely to not overload website servers.

[spoonsinger]

I haven't noticed that and I'm not worthy enough for preferential treatment, so I should. Maybe your local friendly security services are helping you via dictates to your ISP?.

 

However what I'm wondering is why there isn't a delay on mod initialization based on load order rather then the random wall splat approach which the engine, (of any of the Bethesda games), seems to follow.

[Anatriax]

This is common on the website. Nearly every user has a 10 second wait to download files. 

As stated by Dangren, this is likely for reasons to not overload the servers. Also, it's a practice many file sharing websites use for the same purpose.

[Guest]

Please consider the whoever is supporting this site through Patreon has any restriction for downloads removed.

[buglover]

It is also to keep bots from basically ripping every file from the site at the speed of light.

 

People have been known to download the entire contents of a website using bots simply to repost it all on another website created for just that purpose. It's basically stealing an entire website, often to "spoof" the original website with the fake website handing out malware--People think that they're at the real website because all the files are there. It would be hard to do on this site because a great deal of the files are not even located on LL servers, but at places like Mega.