[HPFGU-Feedback] Posting limits was Re: What Price Success? Improving Posting Quality on HPfGU

[Susan Albrecht]

Pippin: 
>  We had decided on a limit of three posts per day 
> for the trial period.

Potioncat/Kathy:
> Clearly, I'm in the minority here, but I don't like 
> the idea of posting limits. (But, if it's going to 
> happen, I do like the idea of a trial period.)

> Can someone tell this bear of little brain how it 
> will improve quality?  It will afterall, limit the 
> good posters as well as the poor posters.  


SSSusan:
To me the notion is that if people know they're going
to only have 3 per day, they're going to have to THINK
before posting, rather than firing off a post every
whipstitch, whenever a random thought comes into their
mind or whenever they see something they like but
don't really have THAT much new to offer.  

If limited to 3, that person might decide to cut &
paste a bit of that post in Word, wait for a few more
posts or think about how to develop it into something
more.  

That person might also complete the thread, snipping
bits of several posts [again, using Word helps with
this], and post one response to 2 or 3 posts, instead
of 2 or 3 individual responses.

To me, I think this really would help improve quality.
 It would certainly reduce the tennis exchanges.

Siriusly Snapey Susan