The appearance of Dick in our faces this week reminds me that FFL is far more enjoyable when firm posting limits are in place. Additionally, I enjoy watching FFL's perpetual 'weekend drunk' max out by Sunday on most weeks. How much better FFL is with a firm 50 / week limit.
--- In [email protected], "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Too complicated! Fifty a week seems about right. It's easy to > remember, easy to calculate. > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> 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@> > > >
