On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone remind me what the per day and per month post limits are, and confirm that someone is still keeping track?
We've established in the past that a collegial atmosphere is desired by the people who post to and read this list. Some have never agreed, but that is why some have previously been moderated. Limits and moderation have been the only tools effective against those who can't find the energy to be nice; reason has never worked, though it has been deployed at each opportunity. Let's use the tools at hand, and avoid sidetracking useful discussion with meta problems.
30 posts per month. No one has come close to hitting the limit in at least a few months.
We didn't go with a per-day limit because there are times when posting 6 or 7 times in a day is fine - for example, when we've got a few constructive threads going at once. When it becomes problematic is when you're doing a back-and-forth that's getting heated. And I guess what I would say to that is, if you're posting in a thread that's becoming a little heated, particularly one that you've posted in already, maybe you should hold off on sending your e-mail for a few hours. Then, you can decide whether you really want to send that e-mail - with the added benefit of giving others time to cool down as well. But I don't think you could set a per-day limit that would be effective without being restrictive.
As for moderation, I think that we've tried to apply a light touch, particularly given that the atmosphere has seemed to improve over the last few months. That said, if moderation is necessary, then we'll do so.