but if the level of discourse had an upper cap which easily contains the habits of a semi-active user, then I generally welcome it.
Again, your commenting far outstrips that of a semi-active user. Perhaps you should be advocating for a comment limit based on the average user as well.
You should probably advocate for a post limit based on the average poster too. Wouldn’t want it to be unfair, after all. And posts are MUCH more visible than votes or comments.
I have a feeling that this impacts largely a minority of one.
It was geared towards the muzzling of ten ‘top’ users (10, mind you, is some ~2% of the daily users of Piefed.social to begin with), but under the presumption that their votes are evenly spread out, day-by-day.
In reality, most people aren’t on the Fediverse every day - they come in, participate in a discussion or three, and then might not be back for a few days. So it’s easy to hit the limit, as it is a daily limit, simply by being active in a discussion.
Whilst I sense the sarcasm of your tone, I do largely agree that post and comment caps would likely dampen the effect of overactive subs (filtering out political posts by curating my subscriptions is a chore…)
I do agree that a daily limit might be too much, as activity does seem to be sporadic as you say. A weekly limit could work though.
Anyway, to get to the crux of it: I’d be sad if you leave, but not sad if you posted a little less
Whilst I sense the sarcasm of your tone, I do largely agree that post and comment caps would likely dampen the effect of overactive subs (filtering out political posts by curating my subscriptions is a chore…)
… most of those political posts aren’t done by the same people. They’re ‘overactive’ because many Fediverse users are heavily political. So limiting the number of individual user posts or comments would do jack shit for that.
Anyway, to get to the crux of it: I’d be sad if you leave, but not sad if you posted a little less
Sorry that I want to participate in a community on my own terms. You won’t have to worry about that frightening level of autonomy from me on here anymore.
Again, your commenting far outstrips that of a semi-active user. Perhaps you should be advocating for a comment limit based on the average user as well.
You should probably advocate for a post limit based on the average poster too. Wouldn’t want it to be unfair, after all. And posts are MUCH more visible than votes or comments.
It was geared towards the muzzling of ten ‘top’ users (10, mind you, is some ~2% of the daily users of Piefed.social to begin with), but under the presumption that their votes are evenly spread out, day-by-day.
In reality, most people aren’t on the Fediverse every day - they come in, participate in a discussion or three, and then might not be back for a few days. So it’s easy to hit the limit, as it is a daily limit, simply by being active in a discussion.
Whilst I sense the sarcasm of your tone, I do largely agree that post and comment caps would likely dampen the effect of overactive subs (filtering out political posts by curating my subscriptions is a chore…)
I do agree that a daily limit might be too much, as activity does seem to be sporadic as you say. A weekly limit could work though.
Anyway, to get to the crux of it: I’d be sad if you leave, but not sad if you posted a little less
… most of those political posts aren’t done by the same people. They’re ‘overactive’ because many Fediverse users are heavily political. So limiting the number of individual user posts or comments would do jack shit for that.
Sorry that I want to participate in a community on my own terms. You won’t have to worry about that frightening level of autonomy from me on here anymore.