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title: "Cooldown Period"
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description: "mCaptcha implements leaky bucket algorithm to measure
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current traffic levels. Cooldown period specifies the leak or the time
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after which a visitor addition is decremented."
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lead: ""
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date: 2022-07-22
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lastmod: 2022-07-22 20:17
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draft: false
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parent: "Terminology"
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weight: 522
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toc: true
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---
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mCaptcha implements leaky bucket algorithm to measure
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current traffic levels. Cooldown period specifies the leak or the time
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after which a visitor addition is decremented.
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For instance, if initial traffic level is 0 and a user visits one
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second later, the traffic level will be incremented to 1. Now, if the
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cooldown period is set to 30 seconds, the traffic level will be
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decremented after 30 seconds. So after 30 seconds, the traffic level will
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go from 1 to 0.
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## Easy Mode: Default cooldown
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When configuring mCaptcha in [easy
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mode](./difficulty-factor#easy-option), the default cooldown period is
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set to 30 seconds.
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