What Price Success? Improving Posting Quality on HPfGU

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--- In HPFGU-Feedback, "Tammy Rizzo" wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2005 at 9:12, Sherry Gomes wrote:
> <snip>
> > Another point is, what will be the cut off?  With eh
> > variety of time zones represented on HPFGU, how can it
> > probably be enforced?
> 
> Now Tammy:
> This is exactly why I suggested closing off the list to
> new posts about 24 hours BEFORE the official release of
> HBP -- to allow for any time-zone confusion, as well as
> to allow for those posts inevitably lost in the Yahoo
> ether that show up hours (or sometimes days) late.
[snip]

But Sherry wasn't, in the post you're quoting, referring to the 
proposal to closing the list for posts for a period after the 
release of HBP - she was referring to the proposal to introduce a 
maximum number of posts each member can make per day.  And with that 
proposal, the time-zone differences are a significant issue.  It 
certainly will be a sizeable job for the elves to keep counting 
posts for each poster, counting back previous posts and figuring out 
when they were posted, etc.  

If you use a dynamic 24-hour window the elves really have a big job 
for themselves, while if you use a set turnover-time when the quota 
is reset, you get a quota-reset that's in the middle of the day for 
some, and in the middle of the night for others.  It would also lead 
to situations where someone could post two quotas of posts within a 
short time, without legally going over the quota.  Others would see 
that and cry out "Why is SHE allowed to go over the quota and not 
I?  UNFAIR!" 

I really don't think the proposal for a daily quota of posts will be 
a workable solution - it will add to the workload of the elves to 
the point where they go batty and get admitted to St Mungo's, I fear.

Best regards
Christian Stubø