--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote:
Salyavin wrote: > > > Let's go back to 50 a week and stop the endless dross. > > If the general consensus is to do so, we'll do so after > Alex has had his month's reprieve. Rick, if you don't have the time to look at a significant number of the posts to see what's been happening, make sure you get a wide sampling of opinion. Here's mine: As far as "ad hominem" is concerned, my sense is that there has been much, much more of a friendly, communal feeling here since the limit was lifted. The worst of the ad hominem-ers has mostly been keeping his head down, which has reduced the ad-hom quotient considerably, but it may go up again once his vacation is over. There's still a lot of frivolous posts this week, but they really don't pose a problem; and there have also been many more substantive discussions on a wider range of topics than when the posting limit was in effect. It's just been a pleasure to be able to expand into an interesting conversation. Nobody has been attempting to "drown out" anybody, but then that was always a silly myth. This past week we had only about 2/3 the number of posts as the previous week (922 vs. 1372). So my prediction that things would slow down once we got used to the new freedom seems to have been borne out.
