Posted by Dinah on October 30, 2004, at 21:11:56
In reply to Re: Another 3-post rule?, posted by Dr. Bob on October 30, 2004, at 6:04:22
> My concern isn't difficulties being missed, but posters being bothered by these requests. 3 per month would mean a particular poster could be the subject of an unending stream of requests every 10 days?
So, to be clear, your reason for making this rule is based on this concern. And your concern is not that one poster will complain about many others, but that many posters will complain about one. Since an unending stream of requests could only come from multiple posters, not one. And you want to protect a "particular" poster from being the "subject" of an "unending" stream of requests. Since under Mark's rule, each poster would only have three per month, you can't possibly be talking about one poster making the requests. That wouldn't make any sense.
So my reading of the intent of the new rule is to protect the few from the complaints of the many (once you have decided that the complaints of the many are unfounded) and not to stop multiple complaints from one poster about the posts of many other posters, as long as it didn't exceed three per poster recipient.
I think it would be honest of you to clarify your intent, Dr. Bob. I think many posters mistake it to be the other way around.
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