Re: "too many notes" -- a modest proposal & Re: Proposal for keeping "free speech" but limitting the nuisance to the working group (Was: John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin)

["Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony at atkielski.com>]

Jeroen Massar writes:

> Limiting to less than 3 per day would be the same as suspending for X
> hours.

They would both be the same only if they were carried out in the same
way.

If either method is applied to specific users, it's still just
arbitrary censorship.  If it is applied equally to everyone by a
robot, then it's fair.

> Next to that it might also inhibit one from fixing a statement,
> though of course one should re-read their post before posting.

Life is tough.  As long as the same restrictions apply to _everyone_,
no problem.

> Mailman is python and it should not be to difficult to add per-poster
> counters, but this would also require that the secretariat applies those
> patches and then hope that these changes are really working perfectly
> well. A lot of testing would be required. Many people depend on the list
> software, breaking it is not something that will be taken lightly ;)
> Also avoiding such counters can be done easily by using multiple
> subscriptions, but indeed that would be obvious.

Excuses, excuses.  The urge to manually and subjectively _censor_ is
irresistibly strong, is it not?


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