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Would ATOT support a posts-per-day limit?

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I probably made 100 posts in general hardware today.

High ppd doesn't mean nef.

EDIT: sorry, only 53 today in GH
 
I think it would be better to have "exotic" postcount titles for people with a low post per day average who have been around for more than a couple months. "Sporadic Lurker", "Lurker above", "Lurker below", "Creeping Lurker", "Invisible man", "Silent Bob", etc.

Then you would have people non-posting in the hope they can get their post/day average low enough to become a Lurker.
 
That would shaft the tax thread completely.

Some times we can put up 20-30 posts a day in that thread alone.
Then there are 5-10 slaps at people that will not use the thread.
 
I'd support a limit on posts per day in OT and P&N, but how would you implement that in the other forums?
Suppose the limit is 20 ppd. And, 25 people go to technical support for help. Does that mean that a particularly helpful person is limited to helping only 20 people? And, some of those threads are a back-and-forth dialogue with several posts by each person.

In this case, a post limit would seriously limit how helpful members can be.

I suggested this in another post, and I'll suggest it again: Don't count posts in OT or P&N.
And, perhaps create a new forum for "non-computer help sought/help given", providing a better location for threads such as the annual tax thread, or even those harmless homework help threads. There have been a number of people seeking honest help with homework problems that they just didn't "get", only to be flamed in OT with posts of "do your own homework" or "read the book."
 
if they had this then people would have to create new usernames to help people out with questions and other things.

10 posts per hour/day is very tough on some people
 
hell no. With a forum this big that would completely kill this place. I mean, you have on average 500 or so people logged in at once. if you talk to 10% of those people (which is highly possible) thats 5x more that you proposed, and thats only one post per person. I probably post 25 times a day just in CPU/overclocking, a few more in video, and a bunch here, when I log on.

No need to kill a vibrant community even more over a few stupid neffers.
 
No and here's a main reason why.

Think of 9/11. I wasnt here when 9/11 happened but i've seen the threads, and if I was here i'd be posting a lot that day. Emotions were high, people were panicking over loved ones, etc. What if you could only have 10 posts that day, and you did 8 of them before 9/11 (assume they were helpul posts and whatnot). Now you have to miss out on discussing something that affected the entire country because of a 10-post-per-day rule?

And you can't say just turn it off when something like that happens, because lots of things are newsworthy/important to some people that arent to others. The war in Iraq, Award shows, World Series, Superbowl, etc. A 10 ppd limit (or 20, or 25, or whatever) would kill any decent conversation/debates/whatever else you can think of.

Just my $.02
 
Originally posted by: her209
For example, members will be allowed to post only 10 posts per day. What about posts-per-hour?

(Just another thought.)
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Just do away with postcounts, and make titles based on duration of membership.
 
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