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Also, the caps should not be based on 24 hours. This again just favours those who have plenty of free time, for whatever reason. Many professionals, such as myself, prefer to post when we have a good block of time, which only occurs occasionally and it is irksome when, not having posted for weeks at a stretch, I am just as capped as others who post every day.

Finally, as someone said, the two post cap is a real conversation killer. It forces people to write long posts, anticipating questions which may never be asked so as to get their point across and punishes those who would prefer a more conversational style of exchange. There is some merit in this as 30 three word posts exchanged between writers having a conversation can be tiresome to other readers, but some scope for compromise ought to exist. Perhaps the cap could on either a word limit in 50 word bites.. so that 6 <50 word posts would equal 3 100 word posts or 1 300 word posts.

Just some ideas that might not be too difficult to implement and would represent some compromise.

Sancho: The limits mean that OLO isn't overrun by retirees and schizophrenics on disability pensions who have lots of free time.

OMG, a dirty discriminator. It's Politically incorrect, I'm offended. Ban him for life. Boo Hoo Hoo! Where's a tree? {;-O

I agree the 4 post limit is not enough when you are on a roll. The 350 word limit is a bit short too. 500 would be good.

Ludwig,

I don't mind the posting limits. David f spells out the reasons fairly well. I think the different posting limits in this forum and the main OLO article area have a noticeable effect - the standard in the OLO area is better. In other words, I think the limit of 2 is just fine.

What I do have a problem with is the limit of 5 posts in one day. There are 6 new OLO articles posted each day, and discussion on them often goes on for days. Yet you don't even have enough posts to comment on all of one day's articles, let alone participate in the ongoing discussion of lots of them. The limit should be at least 10. 8 seems to work OK for this discussion area, but there are fewer threads.

It's funny, the ones that want change are the ones that hardly comment.

Sancho,

"The limits mean that OLO isn't overrun by retirees and schizophrenics on disability pensions who have lots of free time"

Riiight. As opposed twats?

“The limit should be at least 10”.

Agreed rstuart. Four posts per thread and ten per day on the article threads, to bring them in line with the general threads.

“…the standard in the OLO area is better…”

I can’t see that the standard in the articles section is any better than in the general section because of the 2-posts-per-day limit. I think that quite the opposite would be the case, for reasons as outlined in my OP.

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Interesting ideas Kalin1. They have merit but it is also important to keep it simple, so that the rules can be easily understood by all.

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I tried to post this post several hours ago, but ran into the 10 general posts in 24 hours brickwall! Yeah ok, so I’ve been twaddling on too much on the ‘chill out’ thread. Silly me. But nevertheless, even after four years on OLO, I just completely didn’t see it coming. I don’t encounter this restriction very often, but the five post limit on the article threads has been a repeated nuisance!

It would be much easier to keep track of if the 24 hour period started at a given time, say midnight, rather than being 24 hours from whenever your tenth most recent post was put up (or fifth as the case may be).

i got sick of getting the no post allowed message..in articles
so stopped going there...funny how..my posts now...are a very comfortable 3 or 4 perday...all in general.[generally speaking]

i know my reduced posting..has overjoyed many...they dont have to skip past them no more..[reportedly]...ok im deliberatly dumbing myself down..[by ignoring articles]

how dumb..]metaphoricly speaking..[..is putting in up to 6 new topics per day...and only 4 comments...one on 4 of em...or 2 on one of em..

anyhow as this topic..is about articles

well..im over posting there...unless unavoidable...

heck im only checking for new articles...in the general mailout..articles dosnt even have notice..[that i have noticed]..im flippant of course...others would have better descriptors

anyhow post done...now i might read some of the other replies