Wait Between Replies

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This is a question more for the admins, mods, etc. as well as Lyric.

Does anyone of you know why there is a wait time in between replying to different posts?

Here's a a screen shot as an example:

   

I've seen something similar to this quite a few times already and was immediately confuzzled. Hopefully someone knows why there's a wait period and relieves me of my confuzzlement by clarifying. Thank you!