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15 post limit

Started by Lupercal on 19 Jul 2004, 15:46 UTC · 9 preserved posts

I wonder if 15 might be just a tad low as an upper limit on posts per 24 hrs. I sem to be averaging around 10 posts at the moment, all of which I think are substantial. This may well drop off as I settle in; still I find myself wondering whether I'm approaching my limit for the day and ought perhaps to not post. Perhaps I should have not posted this. What if it takes me over the limit. Aaagh! See?

I completely support the push to discourage posting style that results contributing one line of dialog at a time to a RP thread, or 'lol' or 'ROTFLAO' to other threads (though I gotta admit a guilty pleasure in sometimes having someone tell me they ROTFLTAO to something I've posted). But anyway this is taken care of with the minimum 15 character limit in posts.

So, unless the maximum 15 posts rule is because of a bandwidth problem, in which case it's perfectly understandable, it risks catching people like me, who during squandered evenings are capable of churning out a large number of hopefully worthwhile and substantial posts.

If that's the intent, no worries, and sorry for contributing to the problem. If OTTOH it's part of the effort to boost quality over quantity, could I humbly suggest giving it a nudge upwards, perhaps to 20 per day?  I suspect the IM style RP posts would be churning out numbers well in excess of 20, and I'd like to think that if I happen to bang out 16 posts in 24 hours, my quality per post hasn't nescessarily slipped.  

Just for your consideration Yours seem like good ideas to me; I would just tweak that one parameter upwards a tad.

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Heh.  Aww, don't worry so much about things.  They usually have a way of working themselves out.  At the moment, I want to limit the  amount of spam that TIB has been receiving by a few members.  Once that's understood, the limit will be lifted.  I'd imagine it'll be gone by the end of the week.  I just want the problems in the RBF to cool off at the moment.
Quote (Silver Huskey @ July 20 2004,1:17, am)
Heh. �Aww, don't worry so much about things. �They usually have a way of working themselves out. �At the moment, I want to limit the �amount of spam that TIB has been receiving by a few members. �Once that's understood, the limit will be lifted. �I'd imagine it'll be gone by the end of the week. �I just want the problems in the RBF to cool off at the moment.

Or you could sell Silver your first born for an extra post or two. �Neat huh? �It's a small price to pay for being able to post once or twice more. �*goes on selling children he'll never have*

( :unclesam: � I want you..... to get me something to drink.... and while you're at it, bring me a P,B,& J sammich!;)
Are you suggesting that I'm easy to bribe, Ravid?  *Whistles and sits on a large sack of money, and froot loops.* XD  Well, I'd seriously prefer cereal over first born children.  ;)
Quote (Silver Huskey @ July 20 2004,11:40, am)
Are you suggesting that I'm easy to bribe, Ravid? �*Whistles and sits on a large sack of money, and froot loops.* XD �Well, I'd seriously prefer cereal over first born children. �;)

I say nothing!  Okay.. I just merely suggested that it's possible to bribe you.. not that it's easy. ;)
Beutiful. :angry:
What happened to the minimum character setting? Seems it isn't working *point above his post* WolfVane please post at least 1 sentence of more than 5 words in at a time.
Have seen folks *points at the rap thread* post one emoticon and the post goes through. I think 15 character posts are too short...example "I love chicken eggs" is actually 16 characters with a total of 21 spaces. Thats not exactly a quality post. Perhaps the lower limit should be 35 or 40 characters. Surely people can think of that much to say, as "This quote here for example, is well over 35 characters" How hard was that? :D
LOL!  I could change that.  But it seems some people have a hard enough time just thinking of one sentence.  I find it a shame that we have to change things around, just to force quality posts.  Actually, I find it to be very sad.  Not for the forum, but for the people.  *Shakes head.*

And THERE IS NO 15 POST limit, for those of you who might be wondering.  The problem was solved, so I never bothered to make the hack actually work.
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