Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:57:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Martha Gimenez Reply-To: Martha Gimenez To: PSN@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: a question about limits In-Reply-To: On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, William Bogard wrote: > a question about limit software, that perhaps the list owners/moderators > can answer. if such software is indeed utilized on psn, what are the > chances that at least some"serious" posts (by the moderators standards) > that also happen to go over the limit will be posted *only* to psn-cafe? > do the limits automatically kick in and have to be overridden? or will > messages be screened first by moderators--for importance, quality, the > unity and coherence of the discussion, etc.--and then checked against the > limit? Limits come first and, if necessary, are overridden, to allow for the continuation of an interesting thread or to allow for yet more posts from the same person which seem particularly useful or valuable. The standards used to judge the first submission by someone are lower (looser) than those used for their tenth submission of the month. We welcome/encourage new virtual faces on the list, but if you find us allowing someone to post 30 of the last 100 messages, just know that we think Karl has returned :) Yours, Martha ps. Here is a relevant paragraph from our first message about self-moderation posted last week. Possible Problem: What if an interesting thread is developing and a particular author is an important contributor to that thread? Might that author hit his/her limit just when many of us would like to see a continuation of the thread? To solve this potential problem, the moderators propose to occasionally use discretionary action to suspend that particular person's limit for awhile. Suspending individual limits would need to be infrequent; otherwise, the purpose of limits would be defeated.