Ryan Lomonaco wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Geoffrey Plourde
<geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com>wrote;wrote:
I really hated the idea of posting limits at
first, but must commend the
list mods for implementing it. Now that there is a specific cost to replies,
I have scaled back on the amount of emails I have sent and prioritized based
on discussion. Another possibility would be imposing a throttle on replies
to threads, e.g. 5 per thread per day.
That's something that I think might have merit, although it's one of
those
things that's tough to set as a hard-and-fast rule because of time zone
differences.
I think the better approach is what the moderators have occasionally
done in the past, which is to kill a specific thread. And the rest of us
can call out those threads as being worthless, as several people have
done, or ignore them (Thomas Dalton is right about that at least). But I
expect throttling threads would be counterproductive. The beneficial
effect of the current moderation is that it creates space for a more
inclusive discussion, by restraining "post-early-and-often" behavior. A
per-thread throttle would create an incentive to encourage that
behavior, by privileging those who are quickest to respond.
--Michael Snow