Per Day Post Cap

[fftransform]

There are two or three relatively new members on this forum who have run up enormous post counts, primarily by just spamming the *** out of the forums with completely inane comments and threads.  They are totally obnoxious, and I've noticed that as their posts have become more and more frequent, the posts of all of the older members have become more infrequent: in essence, they're scaring everyone off.  I'm far from the first person to complain about this, even officially, but here's a potential solution.

I'd really like to institute a cap on threads started per day (one per day, other than the "Anything But Piano" and "Audition Room" subforums), and posts per day (at 10 or 15).  This is totally reasonable.

[pianoplayjl]

Ok, fair enough about the posts per day and the threads started by me, I have been posting too much. But seriously, I'm not spamming the H out of here. All I wanted is just help, advice, suggestions, and knowledge. I think there IS already a post cap of 5 per day, if you ever read the forum rules but nowadays, who cares? If you notice, some of the older members have not been active before I joined the forum. So, I am not the cause of all of them not posting. perhaps only a half. One day I will get banned, but there are just too many people posting 5+ for the mod to care. 5 posts a day is just too little for my liking. If it is 10 a day then I am happy. Are you sayig that the threads I started are stupid? Ok, if you say so, fine by me. I was simply just asking WHY? WHY? I'm just trying to find more; enlighten myself.

JL

[williampiano]

Honestly, I'm fine with all the threads that pianoplayjl has started. Most of them are in the Polls board anyway, so people usually know what to expect when they go there.

The only thing that bothers me is when people respond to threads with answers that aren't very accurate or even helpful.

[oxy60]

Or totally off topic... And then start an argument between two or three members.

In any open forum without a moderator, this will happen. Even the forums that force a poster to be member of face book have similar issues. 

It is one of the irritations of life. 

[ahinton]

It might not be a bad idea, subject to the figure decided upon for a maximum dailyu post count, but I do not imagine it to be a particularly pressing issue given that people don't have to read particular posts if they don't want to and the security and forum policy measures and the maximum word count per post already in place should deal with offensive or excessively long posts that contravene forum rules in any case - so I guess that, like everything else here in terms of policy, it's up to Nils.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

I can think of circumstances when a Word Cap would have been more appropriate.

Thal

[ahinton]

I can think of circumstances when a Word Cap would have been more appropriate.

But, as I wrote, there already is one!

Best,

Alistair

[jesc]

I would be interested in what's decided. There is another solution but its weight falls heavily on the admin: The admin manually deletes everything that can be classified as "garbage".

I don't know, from what I gather there is only one admin here? Most other forums have an admin/moderator (whichever you prefer) for each board.

Why I'm curious is because the Per Day Post Cap might limit the traffic in piano street (assuming you get an active poster who manically posts good stuff which will be good to the site, ok this might be rare). I'm classifying Pianostreet forum as a bit stagnant compared to others.

I really don't know. Still, the website seems too small and the traffic not too intense to justify the recruiting of multiple moderators. Unless I'm misinformed and that there are actually many moderators managing the site then, well, they should've managed the supposed garbage from the start.

I for one am always happy for Pianostreet whenever there's a new user posting (exept for trolls of course). It's like a breath of fresh air coming from the outside. 

[timothy42b]

Just idly wondering - sorry, can't help it!  are any of the high post count members also those who came here after being banned on other forums?

But anyway.  If a thread doesn't look interesting, I don't read it.  So I guess I don't see why I should care how many threads Member X starts, because the number I'm going to read is probably zero. 

While people should probably be considerate about how many threads they start, we should also remember nobody forces the rest of us to read ANY of them.  Vote with your mouse.