I am the eternal wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Richard J. Williams <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There seems to be another 'glitch' in the >> FFL Post Counter. I wonder what's up with >> that? Who cares? >> >> Maybe we should just drop the counting rule >> - that's my vote. We need to have more posts >> by Barry and Judy - that seems to be the >> only interesting thing to read around here >> anymore. >> >> Apparently almost everyone here now is a >> troll, of one sort or another - hardly >> anyone seems to be able to carry on an >> extended dialog or conversation for longer >> than a few minutes a day. >> > > At first I thought the post count was a good idea. No longer are > Peter and others using FFL as an IM, posting inanities every couple of > minutes, posting dozens in non-sequitors a day. Now I see there's a > problem with some very enthusiastic posters (Judy comes to mind), who > come close to blowing their wad in the first couple of days after the > count is reset. > > I wondered what it was about Fridays. Did everyone leave town? No, > it appears people have blown their wad or are close to it. I don't > know what the solution is here. If we doubled the limit to 100 we > might just get people in the same bind as before. I thought that 50 > was a righteous limit yet I felt the need to put my two cents in more > than usual last week and was shocked to see how fast my post count was > climbing to 50. Rarely does Judy post something that interests me. > More often Raunch posts on varied topics. I'd like to see these two > women get a greater allowance. Heck, I'd be happy most weeks to give > my unused count to these two. > > I'd vote for an Animal Farm approach to the post limits where > everybody gets an equal number of posts but some posters are more > equal than others. I'm all for variable subtracting of posts > remaining based on bad post editing/pruning. It gets a bit tedious > trying to find the one line response in a post which cites 6 previous > posters. IMO if someone doesn't want to take the time to prune > > <<< > <<<< > <<<<< > <<<<<< > > then just subtract 5 from their weekly post limit. Write up a PHP script for that then. :-D
FYI, this has been suggested before and got a big thumbs down. I wrote the script for the Post Count and yet I'm opposed to any kind of limit. But then I read via email and so have all kinds of methods of being able to sort out the messages and when finished will sometime just hit "Mark Folder Read" which cleans up the list quite a bit since the email client ( Thunderbird) is set to "Unread" for the FFL folder. You can't do those kind of things using the web site to read the group. As for the counts, I know I spotted at least one duplicate set earlier this week for Judy. People are allowed to challenge the number if they feel duplicates have been sent out. Sometimes those also appear on the web site. The count is done via reading headers off email. I was hoping to add a line or two of code to check for duplicates but Yahoo actually bumps the message number if it sends out a duplicate so that was not possible. Also it is possible that an FFL email can get could in the mail provider's spam filter. I have occasionally found some stuck there by checking the web mail site. To suggest that some get more posting limits than others would be rather fascist anyway. The group is not a writing contest.
