Rick, I don't want to place an administrative burden on you or anyone. I was thinking more of an honor system -- with sosme verification for blatant abusers.
In other words, I think most people can count thier own posts and self limit them. I would tend to post way less than 35 a week, but might do 7-8 /day on week ends, particulrly if Curtis, Marek, Judy, Peter, Mark, Patrick -- among my favorite posters -- or others, engage me / others in an interesting diologue / conversation. No need to really count those whoe honor and demonstrate they can be trusted on an honor system. For the 5% of abusers, it becomes obvious when someone is on a posting jag and needs help. Thus anyone who is annoyed, can count up all posts within 7 days from any starting point and if its more than 35, notify you and you can moderated them. If no one complains, then ok. Bottom line is you do not need to be burdene3d with counting anything. The system is both self-monitored, or monitored by readers. You just need to "push the button" when it comes to your attention from a volunteer counter / annoyed reader that someone is on a jag and needs "help" to control themselves. --------------------- I am assuming this is an "administrative post" and doesn't count as my five. Or just Cut me off. :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The trouble with this idea is that, as you said, counting is difficult. But > if people really wanted me to, I'd be willing to average posts over a week, > and start the recount each Monday morning. Let's have feedback on that idea. > An alternative would be for you to do all your writing in your email program > or in 5 long emails which you save as drafts until you've done all the > writing you want to do and can send them. Of course, that prevents the > liveliness of back and forth dialog, and might discourage readership, as > many people wouldn't want to read big long things, unless they were > extremely well written. I used to notice that FFL became more active on > weekends, especially Sundays, as people have more time to participate. So > again, I'm open to the idea of a 35-post weekly limit for each member. Let's > get some feedback on that. >
