The 30 post limit came about in a different era, when the list had problems at a greater scale. I don't see any issues with post frequency recently that should have received moderator response. You are referring to GerardM, but the majority of his posts have been to a single thread. I can't speak to whether that has interfered with that particular thread, but it certainly hasn't presented any problems to the list as a whole. By the way, Erik Zachte keeps statistics: https://stats.wikimedia.org/mail-lists/wikimedia-l.html Much easier than skimming through a list of posts and trying to count them up.

A summary of the total number of posts from people going over the 30 post limit in the last 4 months, with one person having gone over 30 posts for 3 months running: October: none November: 39 December: 33, 35 January: 31, 32, 32 The discussion about other ways of viewing posts, appears to have come to a end without any realistic changes. Last month was lively, however the increasing numbers of people going over the 30 post number shows this is hard to keep an eye on when hot topics are around. It would be great if the list moderators could privately email those at risk of going over (say, when they hit 25 posts) and remind them that it helps to encourage all viewpoints to be seen and read if "power posters" could stick to the limit. Perhaps reminder emails could be automated by bot, and so remain impersonal? Link: * https://stats.wikimedia.org/mail-lists/wikimedia-l.html PS for transparency I posted 27 times in January, placing me as the seventh highest last month, but I was helped by a prod from the list mod, even though I was in the middle of the popular Geshuri discussion. Fae On 31 December 2015 at 16:22, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae