[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: 5 Posts per day limit

[Jordan Abel]

> Betsy Hp:
> Actually, some people *are* familiar with posting limits.  I know
> this because there are often posts where folks reference the posting
> limit. ("I'm at my 5th post" etc.)
>
> Though frankly, I'm not sure why familiarity matters...

It doesn't, except for the fact that I used the adjective phrase
"rarely-enforced".

> Are you wanting those limits to change?

well, yes, that was sort of where I was going with the whole "arguing
the shortcomings of the rule and the lack of need for it" thing. This
is the right place for that, isn't it?

Why not instead say that every post has to _add_ something (not that
it has to be a perfectly constructed post, but just that it can't be a
mere rehash of the same message you responded to someone else with two
seconds ago, or that you said the same exact thing earlier in the
thread)? That would stop people arguing in circles and keep debate
moving forward without limiting its pace unnecessarily.

Jen:
> After OOTP

First thing - that's right after a book release - don't you think that
maybe it's possible we don't need the same rules in (shall we say)
'peacetime'?

I'm not denying that what you described [elsewhere in your post] isn't
a problem - I just think that it's not a problem that's really solved
by limiting to 5 posts per day. The only "problem" that it "solves"
is, well, the number of new messages each day. Which no-one's really
seriously argued is a problem. I think there are better solutions to
the problem that's actually been stated (which we all seem to agree
on, if in somewhat different words - that being people just arguing in
circles / repeating themselves many times / etc)

Jen:
>NO one, myself included, is
>enjoyable after 5 posts a day. People just get tired of seeing your
>name in my opinion.

Even when there are five (or six, or ten) different discussions going
on and these five posts are in only four of them anyway? If there are
ten different discussions going on should there be a rule that any
given list member is only allowed to have an opinion on five of the
issues being discussed?

And regardless, who really gets tired of seeing a name? You might get
tired of reading so much material by someone, but 15 short posts or 5
really long ones, it's all the same in that respect. In these recent
threads about draco or snape or whether dumbledore knew what was gonna
happen on the tower etc, i've gotten tired of reading them altogether
no matter _who_ posts them. And it's really no different with a small
number of really long posts as with more, shorter ones. Even if what
you're saying is a problem that should be solved, it's not one that
can be solved by (metaphorically, though not by much) stuffing the
same number of letters into fewer envelopes.

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Random832