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New Sidebar Rule: (self.world)

submitted 10 months ago by jordanlund to c/world

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We've had to create a new sidebar rule, we won't be enacting it retroactively because that just doesn't seem fair, but going forward:

Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only reason they might dominate is because they do the posting. Anyone can make a post, if other people aren’t posting it seems silly to penalize the ones who are, spam excluded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

if other people aren’t posting it seems silly to penalize the ones who are

I suppose that's an easy statement to agree with. However, a sensible rate limit is not a penalty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I understand your sentiment, but I think u/jordonlund is right.

When someone posts nineteen articles, they're likely posting everything that they're seeing, and not even finishing articles. There's no selection process. They're not picking good articles, they're just acting on reflex.

Articles should be posted because a reader actually thought that they were uniquely valuable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think the requirements should be so stringent. Anyone with an RSS reader knows you can at least skim hundreds of articles per day. They shouldn’t have to be the best or most valuable, the only hurdle an article must clear is that it is interesting enough that someone wanted to post it. Then it’s up to community voting to sift through and promote the best ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think we'll just have to recognize that our opinions on this differ. Because i very much don't want the product of someone skimming hundreds of articles a day. That sounds more like reading a firehose of headlines. I don't think you can get the kind of nuanced, incisive information that I come to a place like this for.