Posting this because no one else seems to want to, and it’s a discussion worth having outside of drama or personal conflicts. I’m undecided and can see both sides, but it’s important to address.
Potential benefits of a limit:
- Frequent posters hold significant influence and could, in theory, push misinformation or propaganda (though I haven’t seen evidence of this it’s a fair concern).
- A community dominated by one or two voices might discourage new members from participating.
- Encouraging quality over quantity could increase the value of individual posts.
Potential downsides of a limit:
- Could reduce overall community engagement.
- If set too low, it might discourage meaningful participation from well-intentioned members.
- It could inadvertently encourage the (mis)use of alt accounts.
These are some pros/cons but certainly not all! I encourage more discussion below.
Ahh, ok. But again, I’d say there are other posters who post almost as much and don’t catch the flack that he does.
Not that I am arguing with you, since I think you and I both agree there should be no limit.
I feel that since the vast majority of comments that Monk made were replying and answering comments he was receiving, it’s just community engagement and not detrimental to the community.
I also don’t even see 9 posts a day as a big thing. That’s like one post an hour for an average day. I read WAY more posts than that online during a day.
It’s a feed the troll thing. I see everyone talking about how he was such a troll, but look how few people actually blocked him, and would engage him.
And he’s still around, and I only commented two his posts a couple of times, so I really don’t care. But I just see his name come up all the time, and I never see anything that he did that was nearly as horrible as people imply.
I see MUCH worse in c/politics now than I did back then. I see outright nazi comments, calls to violence, etc.
UM never did any of that. As far as I can tell, everyone was pissed because he refused to back off saying he was going to vote third party–which now isn’t nearly as terrible to say as it was then. But I realize that’s veering off-topic for this discussion.
Oh okay, everything about you (from the propagandistic posting patterns to running heavy defense of Monk who you should know nothing about as < 2-week-old accounts to your long, copy-pasted, Gish galloping comments to the abject nonsense you spew to your general writing style) tells me you and barrygoldwater are just ban evasion alts of Monk. In that case, piss off.
How did you see “MUCH worse now than back then” when your account is 11 days old? Riddle me that.
I purge my accounts and come up with a new username every couple of months. feel free to go to c/privacy to find out why that’s a good idea on lemmy. no ban evasion as I have never been banned under this username or any other. I don’t know what gish galloping is