Limit new thread starts to 1 per day, per member?

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@Surfman

While I don't start multiple threads. I don't think they are too bad and not too many people do it. Its the cross-posting, which is already against the rules that needs to stop. We don't need three South Park threads on multiple forums--maybe just one will do.

"Maybe it could be just me.... sorry to offend multiple thread starters and their fan boys. My apologies"

I think the multi-thread start fanboys will be happy to accept your most sincere apology.

"Aspies are blurters who need to learn to STFU FACT"

Allow me to blurt out that your poetic style posts are most annoying, or perhaps I should start a new thread about it. Apologies in advance if you are offended. Now I will STFU.

But I've had compliments

Dont you like poetry?
I can stop
I dont mind
There may be something else I do
That you find?

Shall I invest you
With my mind?

I can stop this sillyness
But then we would have no
Ties that bind

At first I thought it meant every user only has to post one post per day. But one thread per day....yeah I suppose that isn't that bad, since I sometimes do one or none a day, most is two.

Something that may work (and be fairly easy to implement) is preventing new members from posting until they have been a member for a week, and made at least 10 posts.

This would encourage members to get to know the forums before starting threads. It would also reduce the number of threads where the starter posts a question and is never seen again.

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A more complex system (which would require more work for the moderators) would be to have the first 5 threads started by a member pre-approved, with threads failing to meet basic requirements deleted. Members failing to meet the requirements would be added to the pre-approval list.

Some of the basic requirements could be:
-Posted in the correct forum for the topic
-Given a title that identifies the topic of the post
-Does not duplicate a thread already active (top 20 posts) in the forum

I think the thread titles are important as it makes it easy to decide which threads to read/follow. If a title is too general, or an open ended question then it is difficult tell what is in the thread (even if you have read it before). Some examples of inappropriate thread titles currently active are:
-Parents are....
-Why Now?
-Aspergers?
-Dating [found on Love and Dating]
-Work [found on Work and Finding a Job]

This may sound draconian, but if a member cannot be bothered to give their thread an appropriate title, why should others bother to investigate to find out if it is something they want to read.

seconded, I cant stand ambiguous titles

Bumping-up discussion thread.

More often than not, it's best to respond (and connect) to an existing discussion thread.

Better yet, continuity in discussions can be maintained by quoting a previous response in a discussion thread!

Great! I love blind and arbitrary limits on what people can do, especially when they don’t interfere with my habits and interests. It’s like that venerable adage,

I think it could be useful for stopping spam that fills the whole page with the same exact posts but I think that would be better dealt with by having a much lesser time frame for new posts like one per 5 minutes or something. If you can post a 2nd one in less than 5 minutes, chances are that it was not much of a post anyways.

I have no proper conception of time and if you limit new thread starts, you'll intimidate me and silence me.

Wait a minute. You are annoyed by autistic behaviour? At WrongPlanet, are we not free to speak openly without fear? To be the really real me? And does this website undertake not to request that people with autism should just shut up?

No. No. No. Sometimes posts can be pesky but have we not learned to take the gentle way around and be tolerant of each other?

You're sure they're trolls? Then just skip it.

Gosh, that was upsetting. Maybe I'll just stay here and post all night.