I'm not a big supporter of the whole speed limit thing (although I can see why some people like it and I don't really oppose it), but if you make it any period of 24 hours, and someone posts 19 post one evening and than another 19 next afternoon, after having left SI for most of a day, slept ect. It seems a bit much to say they have violated a 20 post per day limit.
Most people would consider such a situation to be posts not on the same day.
True a simple midnight to midnight limit potentially has its own problems (19 posts just before midnight and 19 post just after midnight, would probably be considered a problem by any supporter of a speed limit)
Another alternative is to let the moderator determine when a user is posting to much and ask them to stop for awhile (I've gotten PMs about such a thing, not on the AMD thread, for less than 20 posts, and I respected them), but than you have to have a moderator who spends incredible amounts of time monitoring the thread (I don't think any of the moderators we have had would want to do that, and I certainly would not), or you have to accept that a lot of times things won't be caught.
Of course if you don't require the warning you could just have a subjective decision that someone has posted too much and deserves a short ban, but that will create controversy and argument as well.
I guess things like that are part of the reason while I'm not a big speed limit supporter.
IMO, ideally, to the extent you have something like a speed limit or any strong concern for too many posts by one person, I'd leave it up to the moderator, the moderator would PM people who went to far, the PMS would be respected, and no one would hassle the moderator about it. But that seems about as likely as AMD buying out Intel with cash on hand. |
