ADMIN: Posting Limits Experiment

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 125337


Greetings from Hexquarters!


We're writing on behalf of the List Administration Team to invite
you to participate in an experiment. In anticipation of the higher
posting volume which will undoubtedly attend the release of
HBP, we are considering a limit of three posts per poster per
day.

Although many active posters post more than this occasionally,
there are only a few who do so on average, so most of you won't
have to change your posting style.

March 1 to March 21, we will be asking all posters to limit
themselves voluntarily to three posts a day. Note that this doesn't
mean responding to only three posts; you're welcome to
combine responses on the same thread. During the trial period
this will be strictly voluntary -- we'll monitor compliance but there
won't be any howlers. When it's over we'll review the results,
probably with a survey of the frequent posters and a poll for the
list in general, and decide whether to make this a rule -- or
perhaps a guideline.

We hope you'll agree that it would be worthwhile to encourage
wider participation in popular threads (in January the top four
posters accounted for a whopping 20% of the posts) as well as
a calmer, more thoughtful atmosphere.

We welcome your response. If you'd like to comment on this
email, please post to the Feedback list

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Feedback

or contact the List Elves at the owner address -- please don't
post comments to the main list -- that's for book discussion only!

Thanks for reading!


Ali and Pippin
for the List Administration Team