[Foundation-l] Housekeeping: One user on moderation today

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Ryan, 

You are correct. I apologize for the ambiguity of my suggestion. To restate, I was suggesting that users be restricted to a fixed or variable amount of posts per thread per day. It could also be done by percentages after a certain amount of time or posts, e.g. Post has 50 posts in a day, User X has made 26 of them. 

Geoffrey 




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From: Ryan Lomonaco <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Mon, November 30, 2009 11:43:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Housekeeping: One user on moderation today

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>wrote:

> Ryan Lomonaco wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> 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
>

My reading of it was X replies per person per day in each thread.  I agree
with you that there should not be a set limit per thread as a whole.

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