Too complicated! Fifty a week seems about right. It's easy to remember, easy to calculate.
--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You haven't been paying attention. We raised the post limit to 75 for two > weeks because of the election, but now it's back to 50. > > > > I've been thinking about Vaj's suggestion of averaging out posts over two > weeks, so that if you don't post much one week, you could post more the > next. There are problems with that, such as deciding which two weeks go > together. IOW, if you do 25 one week and 75 the next, who's to say that > those two weeks go together? Maybe the 25 week was preceded by a 75 week and > the 2nd 75 week would have to be followed by a 25 week, not a fresh start on > averaging 2 weeks. But a plan I think would be cool if Bhairitu or someone > could automate it, would be to give people 50 posts a week starting from the > day they sign up, (existing members would get 50 per week starting from the > day we inaugurate the plan), and then hold them to an average of 50 per week > henceforth. They could only exceed 50 per week if they had accumulated a > post deficit. For instance, if they average 25 per week for the first three > weeks, they would be allowed 125 posts the 4th week. I doubt that most > people would abuse this system and go crazy some week. But it would restrict > to those who tend to max out to their usual limit, while enabling those who > rarely reach the posting limit to relax and forget about it. > > > > It would easy to calculate this if the weekly totals were added to a > spreadsheet, but I wouldn't know how to automate that. Maybe one of our > computer whizzes could figure it out. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Richard J. Williams > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count > > > > Well, I guess we won't be hearing from these > guys for at least a week! LOL! > > > 75 shempmcgurk <shempmcgurk@> > > 75 authfriend <jstein@> > > 75 Robert <babajii_99@> > > 74 TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:no_reply%40yahoogroups.com> > > > 54 Rick Archer <rick@> >
