[Foundation-l] Post limits (was: Flagged Protection update for April 29) - Wikimedia-l

2 May 2010

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Nathan &lt;nawrich(a)gmail.com&gt; 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.

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