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Good idea or not ?

  • Yes - Good Idea

    Votes: 24 29.3%

  • No - Bad Idea

    Votes: 46 56.1%

  • Where is the option to add 100 useless one liners ?

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • I want candy / <Insert funny one liner worth reading here>

    Votes: 9 11.0%
  • Total voters
    82
Why not just limit people to 10 posts per day maximum ?

If they can really help, and really want to help (not just for post count) they'll use the Private Message and é-mail features to do so.

Surely anyone would rather read 10 well thought out posts from each person (per day maximum) than 1,000 one liner posts of dribble.

All the scrolling and clicking ignore every other post is causing me RSI 😛


Going to keep poll going 16 days, until April.
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I think this defeats the whole purpose of a forum, which is supposed to be a place for open communication and discussion. By limiting posts, you stifle the point and chase people away from these forums.

Personally, I post quite often, and only a small amount of those are "useless one liners" (its good to blow off steam oncce in a while. Often when I am trying to help someone, it takes at least 5 or 6 posts in one thread. I think limiting posts would ultimately cripple this forum.
 
TabrisDarkPeace wrote: Why not just limit people to 10 posts per day maximum?
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Because this is the internet, born out of the collective genius of ARPANET and suckled on the teet of free speech loving technology enthusiasts who want nothing more than to post messages that offer informative, funny, and most of the time pointless information for everyone to read and enjoy.

I think you should be limited to only 1 post per year for asking such a question...dumass...
 
I think you should be banned just for being a dumbass.

WTF, the guy is just asking a simple question just like many others do here. If its such free speech then let it be but damn man, don't call somebody a dumbass just for asking a simple question. If anything, your the dumbass
 
after reading all of the replies here I think that any limit is going extreme.

crizazyKid2 had the best point: the forums are for communication. This includes "useless" stuff. Sometimes you want to help on important threads. Other times you want to blow off steam at a flamer. Still other times you just want to join in on the humor and sarcasm that some threads have. Reality is that ANY forum you go to has all types of posts. Even in the midst of blathering idiocy there are nuggets of information that DO help with problems you may have or decisions you need to make. Yes, even within flaming fanboy threads there are useful things, if nothing more than to provide a soap-opera style diversion from everyday work.

Bottom line: Who cares if idiots "clog" up the forum? It is a free-form medium that has very little restrictions compared to real life. Why would you want to turn it into a rules-bound facsimile of what you deal w/ in the "real" world?

Words to live by: A person can be smart... ppl, in general, are idiots. Armed with this wisdom you can enjoy life as you walk through the digital countryside that is this forum. :)
 
I think this defeats the whole purpose of a forum, which is supposed to be a place for open communication and discussion. By limiting posts, you stifle the point and chase people away from these forums.

Personally, I post quite often, and only a small amount of those are "useless one liners" (its good to blow off steam oncce in a while. Often when I am trying to help someone, it takes at least 5 or 6 posts in one thread. I think limiting posts would ultimately cripple this forum.
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I agree w/Hergie. You will find this behavior in every forum that is popular and has a large amount of users. You need to learn how to filter the garbage and not let they spammers bother you. If you don't like the discussion then simply move on.

Yes....it gets frustating when there is a great thread going with mounds of useful information and some troll comes in and hijacks the topic. But what can you do? I actually think sometimes there is some useful information in some of the troll responses. Maybe a link to a site I haven't been to before as an example MMM linking to that t-shirt site (not saying MMM is a troll he does give good info when he wants) or just being entertained sometimes by peoples reactions. Nobody's twisting my arm to read anything.

I will say that personal attacks and hateful/disrespectful name calling should not be tolerated. They should be warned and/or eventually banned if the behavior continues.

Bad idea....
 
@ sojrner...seems you took the words right out of my mouth practically. We were posting at the same time.

edit for spelling
 
"
....I think each member should only be allowed to start one new thread per day. I have a low appreciation for people that read the first paragraph of 5 articles and then start 5 new threads with nothing more than a link to an article and the subject in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. These types of people NEVER make an intelligent reply, that only like to see if they can start trouble....."
**cough, 9-inch, cough**
 
Restricting the number of posts is the WORST IDEA EVER... come on... a lot of the posters are asking for opinions... not facts... and everyone has an opinion on virtually every topic. Can you imagine the frustration of reaching your 10th post and then seeing a topic that REALLY interested you?

I believe that more aggressive moderators would be a better approach.
 
The worst offenders just should be banned.
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Yes. I agree. Maybe not banned at first, but send them on a vacation of about a week from the boards (temporary ban) and tell them to shape up or ship out.
Full agreement with this. If they make another account, check for duplicate email addresses. Besides then they have to start at 0 posts and work their way back up to whatever 'name' and avatar they had before.
 
instead lets just have dark uniformed "loyalists" visit them in the night at their homes and take them "away"... those that stay under the limit need to have their papers checked regularly by those same loyalists. In fact, lets just lock this forum down and make sure that all know our superiority, any n00bs that come in can be forced to wear a yellow sign of their n00bness and until they prove themselves loyal to the forum's blue-eyed regime they will be forced to wallow in the dreggs. Even after proving that, they are still lower class semi-n00bs and can be knocked back to n00boriety at the whim of any of the loyalists...

c'mon, lets be real guys. This is just obsurd to want to restrict anything here...



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Why not just limit people to 10 posts per day maximum ?

If they can really help, and really want to help (not just for post count) they'll use the Private Message and é-mail features to do so.

Surely anyone would rather read 10 well thought out posts from each person (per day maximum) than 1,000 one liner posts of dribble.

All the scrolling and clicking ignore every other post is causing me RSI 😛


Going to keep poll going 16 days, until April.
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Well, I´ve learned a lot on these forums reading several posts from the same members on a single thread. So, imo this poll and questions makes no sense.
 
You guys just filled an entire 2 page thread debating how to limit the number of posts being made.

Am I the only one that sees the irony here?

Bob
 
I think a few more choices should be added.

1. If you call someone a name then you can't post the rest of the day.
2. But if you're a girl and post a Wet-T-Shirt pic the ban is lifted. :twisted:
 
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