From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of feste37 Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
Banning someone for 3 weeks for the "offense" of posting 5 over the limit is excessive. It's overkill. I think that a ban, if you must ban people, of one week would be sufficient. Also, drop the judicial language of "3rd offense." What are you, the police? >From the FFL guidelines which are posted and emailed to everyone each month: "Fairfield Life used to average 75-150 posts a day - 300+ on peak days - and the guidelines included steps on how to deal with the volume. But this volume was due largely to indiscriminate posting by a few members. We now have a policy that limits all members to 50 posts a week. Most participants feel this policy has greatly enhanced the quality of the forum. A Post Count message is posted every evening, listing members' names and the number of messages they've posted that week. Those who exceed their weekly quota will be banned without warning for a week (2nd offense, 2 weeks, etc.). The new week starts each Friday at 7pm Iowa time, or 00:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). UTC is the same as Greenwich Mean Time during winter." The post limit policy was established by consensus after much discussion, and is always subject to revision.
