Given my own posting style--a lot of relatively short posts--I'd prefer to see a total word-count cap rather than a total-posts cap, but that would more strongly encourage the type of superficiality which favors goblins and trolls.
One reason that a "talking stick" is not necessarily as good an approach in online fora as in face-to-face fora is that in most online venues, everyone can speak at any time, so it's not possible to literally stop others from talking by talking over them. However, your point that a flood of posts from The Beasts that Will Not Shut Up can stifle discussion is a valid one, and I'll chew on that.
Of course, one of the reasons I like newsgroups more than web fora is that every newsreader I've ever used has killfiles, while only some web fora do.
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Date: 2003-10-31 02:31 pm (UTC)One reason that a "talking stick" is not necessarily as good an approach in online fora as in face-to-face fora is that in most online venues, everyone can speak at any time, so it's not possible to literally stop others from talking by talking over them. However, your point that a flood of posts from The Beasts that Will Not Shut Up can stifle discussion is a valid one, and I'll chew on that.
Of course, one of the reasons I like newsgroups more than web fora is that every newsreader I've ever used has killfiles, while only some web fora do.