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[hybi] Proposal: 3 or 5 posts per day maximum per list member?

"Shelby Moore" <shelby@coolpage.com> Sat, 28 August 2010 23:02 UTC

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Subject: [hybi] Proposal: 3 or 5 posts per day maximum per list member?
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In effort to incentive each of us to stay focused on our core
competency/points, and thus to disincentivize acrimony, I am proposing the
economic incentive of 3 or 5 posts per day maximum per list member.

I proposed this to the chair, and am awaiting a reply, but I had the
thought that the chair might be hesistant to force that on the list if the
list itself didn't want it.

I think this would accomplish several things:

1) It would minimize the errors in the concensus caused by 1 or a few
people controlling the debate via obfuscation (especially given the
limited time list members have to read each day).

2) It would force each list member to increase his/her S/N ratio and give
more careful thought before posting to the list.

3) It would strongly disincentivize wasting a post on acrimony.

4) It would disincentivize interminable pedantic debate, e.g. arguing both
sides of an issue in disjoint threads (which has the effect of obfuscating
and confusing rather than helping clarity).

5) It would incentivize convergence versus divergence.

6) It would incentivize positivity versus negativity.

7) It would eliminate much of an alpha male syndrome, and would allow the
true alpha male(s) (if we are all not equal in the context of this list),
to be self-evident without acrimony or resentment.  In short, it would
disincentivize the ego and politically correct syndromes that can stifle a
group effort.

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