"Limiting the number of posts one user can post per day" Topic

Hi, I like to scan down the topics from across the forum each day, and pick out those that are more interesting. However, there are occasions when an individual might post 20+ topics, many of which go uncommented, and some of which seem only loosely relevant to TMP.

I'd like to propose that a cap is implemented to the system, so that a user can only start 5 new topics per day. My hope would be that this would avoid the problem (or is it just me that finds it a problem?) mentioned above.

I realise that a determined individual could work around it by just creating additional identities, but my hope would be that the cap just makes them pause and think, "is this actually interesting for other people".

Feel free to shoot me down if you disagree. I could be an outlier.

IF there is an individual member of TMP whom you feel is posting a lot of topics in a day then just use the "Ignore " button. If you "Ignore" someone you will no longer see their posts unless you go to a particular board or he responds to someone else's post.

The solution is simple, just click on the member´s profile and click on the ignore button. Then you will not see any posts originating from that member.

Aha, MajorB was faster on the draw!

What Major B said will do the trick.

The ignore function is good. However, note that you will still see that user's posts in the sub-main-pages or sub-forums.

For example if they make a post on one of the sci-fi boards, it will not show up on your TMP main page, but it will show up on the Sci-Fi main page as well as on whatever sub-board they posted it to.

However, I've found that surgical use of the Ignore function reduces the overall post list so much that I can do all my viewing on the front page without ever having to go to one of the sub-main-pages.

Best of luck whatever you decide to do.

Agreed, what the Major said.

I've used both the ignore and stifle on just one individual.
Bob

Sadly, I had to engage the Ignore function for a certain prolific poster. I know I'll miss the gems he digs up, but it's a trade off for not having my front page deluged.

Ignore function has improved my experience massively. Makes life more pleasant.

Thanks Bill , a winner!

martin

i still don't understand why the ignore feature doesn't just wipe that person's threads from the forums as well as the front page.

we all know who we're talking about here.

i'm resigned to it being this way. so when i read tmp, i click on a forum post, see it's by him (grey box), then quickly hit the back button in the hopes i'll find one he hasn't posted, but it often takes three or four tries….

I don't see why you care about it -- it's not like you can't use your eyeballs, judgement and your mouse to skip past stuff you don't want to read….

If you're interested in the topic, what difference does it make who posted it?

The usually mentioned poster in this context has slowed down dramatically.

But around 6 months or so ago, the Ignore function was initiated for just that reason.
You can also increase your front page capacity to 400 threads.

I am always amused by the cranky and whiny who are personally affronted that they have to even acknowledge the "Poster's" existence.
I read and open about 10% of what he posts, and ignore the rest. Just like everything else on TMP.

How about a ban on "Topics that I will have no interest in!"

"I don't see why you care about it -- it's not like you can't use your eyeballs, judgement and your mouse to skip past stuff you don't want to read…."

can't the same be said of virtually anything some people like to segregate???

for instance, different historical periods and so on. Why have subforums? After all, can't you just use your eyeballs, judgment and mouse to skip past stuff you don't want to read? or does it actually make sense to have subforums so you can avoid periods you aren't interested in, or so you can read about one topic in one forum?

why are libraries so foolish as to have books sorted by topic? i mean, can't people just use their eyeballs and judgment to skip past stuff they don't want to see???

on another level, i cant see why you care that i care. if there are some people who don't want to read the topics posted by someone for a certain reason, so what? why argue so forcefully that they should not have the ability to filter them out??? what's in it for you?

"If you're interested in the topic, what difference does it make who posted it?"

maybe because i have the vain hope that it's a new topic on that subject, and not the exact same topic someone else has already got a thread going on…posted all over again by someone just because he wants to be the thread starter….

example: "new landsknechts" well, maybe it's a new range, different from those plastic landsknechts coming out soon from XYZ company. but no …. they are exactly the same landsknechts already being talked about in a 30 message thread two topics away from this one, and featuring the same link and the same images ……

that is why, in a very specific instance, it makes a difference who posted it…..

Here we go again…………..

And again…

and….again…

and over and over and over again..

I smell hyenas odor again … (smile)

Nothing new here boys.

Time to time they have to snipe and tried.

But they always failed.

Amicalement
Armand

over and over….

YouTube link

it is the song that doesn't end, it goes on and on my friend, Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, forever they will sing it forever just because, it is the song….

But they always failed.

No they didn't – they clicked on "Ignore" and experience an enhanced tmp experience. (smile) or as those who bother to read the formatting page say….

DBDD

Ignore is your friend. Probably the single best feature TMP has had, and good work by Bill. Once it can be extended to being able to disable Tango within the sub forums it will be perfect.

Yes, the Ignore feature does solve the issue in question and in my opinion, enhances the "TMP experience". Having said that, Heinz does have a point and I have seen it several times on threads posted by the person in question. On a few threads gamers are asking questions about the topic in question, how to get those figures, etc., but the poster doesn't know as he is just copying and pasting from other sites. I blundered into something from my own web site that got posted about a project I had completed and there was a gamer asking questions about it without any answers from the poster. I kind of see it as a disservice to gamers here on TMP, but those who think it is useful can continue to view his posts.

This never resonates with me. I never use the front page. I have perhaps a dozen threads I go which is my interests and that is that.

I've barely looked at TMP over the last month good to see some are still shoveling sh…sunshine over Tango , stay classy TMP.

ps use the ignore function that 'everybody' wanted, problem solved with no need to post yet another anti-Tango topic.

I'm sorry Armand, I really thought we were done with all this…

V/R,
Jack

Oh, good god let it GO!!!!!!!!

We never were done my friend, because these people who claims for the Super stifle button and battle for the "Soul of the Site" still persist in more persecution and "burning witches".

They lost because I still here, I would be much more and many of my fellow members of the site enjoy what I post.

Amicalement
Armand

Geez guys,
One guy asks a question and gets some good answers and suddenly people are accused of being on a witch hunt.

I'm fine with the ignore button functions as-is, but evidently there are quite a number of folks that wish it extended to the genre sub-forums and I would support that.

It's not a witch hunt. It's just that if the ignore button did everything that a size-able group of posters wish it did, the topic wouldn't keep coming up. Until it does, it will keep coming up.

Some people are never happy with getting 75% of what they want. They MUST get 200%.
That is what happened to Michael Collins.

Or as Gore Vidal said, "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

Jesus Horatio Christ. Some people persist on attacks against individuals no matter what and just won't let go. I would much rather see Tango ' s wide variety of interests posted than most of what you whiners post hands down.

They will not shut up until they drive him away. Stick to it Tango. I've gotten more from your threads than any other single contributor.

We know who this aimed at – it's just the sad.

Once again, please leave my cousin Tango alone.

To those rushing to one poster's defense..
Folks apparently have the right to post as much as they want, but those who find it annoying have the right to post such as well.

As for the "don't pick on just one guy" calls..
If the cause of a person's annoyance is only one other person, should they not express their annoyance because it's only one person? I think folks have been polite in this thread in naming a particular behavior and not engaging in personal attacks.

Winston,
Sorry, but you're wrong. An uber-Ignore would give many people exactly 100% of what they want and wouldn't cause anyone else to "Fail". I respect Bill's right to not add such a feature, but it's silly to suggest that such a thing would harm another poster.

I'm under the impression vikingtim started reading the forum for the first time….

That's a good point BelgianRay,
Looking at his postings, he was active for a bit in summer 2013 and then started up again just last month. Very likely that he's just now taking stock of the situation and not a Troll deliberately re-trodding old ground.

So… you are saying that he never see/read any relationed post about this?

Ther are plenty from 2010 ahead. A LOT!

Don't be so naif my friend (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

why are libraries so foolish as to have books sorted by topic? i mean, can't people just use their eyeballs and judgment to skip past stuff they don't want to see???

There is a big difference between sorting books by subject, and forcing the librarian to place strips of duct tape over the spines of Stephen King novels.

Oh enough all ready.

Perhaps if we were just to prohibit inane postings…….

There is no forum I know that, because of one spammer, change it system of seeing posts as TMP Bill has done.
One conclusion: Bill likes the amount of spam and probably is looking from a commercial point (more posts is more income) to these posts

Yeah let it go, or Ignore him. I do not though I have to say Tangos posts of late have become boring. Then again most of them are in the Place I refuse to name.

You are losing your touch Tango old boy. At least for me.

One conclusion: Bill likes the amount of spam and probably is looking from a commercial point (more posts is more income) to these posts

More posts is not more income, that is not our business model.

You forget that Tango also has a large number of fans here.

Dear editor,
maybe not the business model perse, but you use the amount of posts to attract customers, as seen under advertisement/detail, or the mentioning of website hits.
Mind you, nothing wrong with it.

You forget that Tango also has a large number of fans here.

You omit to mention that a large number of people don't like what he does here. Witness the large number of stifles and ignores that he had before the tables were abolished. In my view any reasonable person would have taken that as a hint to moderate what they were doing. But no.

For as long as he continues to do what he does he will generate the division in TMP that you can see in this thread.

Tango does a marvelous job of keeping people informed of things they otherwise wouldn't care about. Without him TMP would be half as busy and the Ultramodern board practically dormant. TMP just wouldn't be the same without him!

So… you are saying that he never see/read any relationed post about this?
Ther are plenty from 2010 ahead. A LOT!
Don't be so naif my friend (smile)
Amicalement
Armand

No naiveté here Tango,
Maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but if you'll notice he's only been a member since April 2013. If you look at his postings, he' only posted for a couple months, then virtually disappeared until last month.

It's entirely possible that he only recently was able to deduce what was negatively impacting his TMP viewing and decided to ask about it.

Or maybe he is a sockpuppet, awoken by a stirrer.