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

[Jordan Abel]

> Betsy Hp:
>  But I don't think this particular debate informs at all
> on your main point.
> Betsy Hp:
> It is, but I was confused about what your main point was.

I'll just say straight out - "rarely enforced" had nothing to do with
my main point

> > >>Random832:
> > That would stop people arguing in circles and keep debate moving
> > forward without limiting its pace unnecessarily.
>
> Betsy Hp:
> It doesn't. <g>
>
> But really, one person's rehash is another person's nuance, so that
> particular rule *is* hard to enforce.  I think it's generally used
> to call a halt to a debate the devolves into personal attack and/or
> is not!-is to!-ing.
>
> So the 5 post limit, is it a good thing?

I think my analogy earlier was a good way to put my take on it - it
leads to stuffing too many letters into too few envelopes without
having much real effect on anything else. I think that maybe what it's
trying to get across is a good thing, but it's not a good way to put
it.

maybe something like limit the amount of energy [time or the volume of
text, ???] that any one member puts into any given topic of discussion
in a day - the problem is that would be impossible to enforce fairly.

I think that maybe, instead of five posts per day total, maybe limit
to some number of posts per day _on a given subject_. - and have some
flexibility for the amount of discussion that subject is getting - if
debate is reasonably healthy and fast-paced (and _going somewhere_) go
ahead and post more, but if it seems one person is dominating a thread
or it's just going back and forth without providing any new
information, that's a problem. And I don't think that posts in one
discussion should go towards any "limit" so as to prevent from posting
in an unrelated discussion.