Posted by Lou Pilder on October 14, 2006, at 22:23:33
In reply to Lou's reminder to Dr. Hsiung-, posted by Lou Pilder on October 8, 2006, at 11:20:29
DR. Hsiung,
In accordance with your reminder procedure, the following;
The 3 consecutive post rule has brought out that IMO the rule is only to keep one from posting more than 3 consecutive posts to their own post. This is because;
A. posting to aspects from different people is not part of the posts that one is replying to their selves and that is an exception
B. a diary is exempt because it is self-contained
C. A meltdown could be the same as a diary, but psychologically important to not wait for others to respond
D. a correction is not a {follow-up}, nor are other posts that are also not follow-ups.
E. A time separation is not counted, such as a day.
F. You have exceptions that also accoomodate one's need to post about something.
Putting all of this together, I come up with that the forum is to focus on support and education and I agree that the exceptions are needed to allow support and education, for if a rule denied one to offer support and education, it would be contradictory to the mission of the community.
This is why , as some have asked me, why this is so important to me to discuss this rule here, for I see that it has the potential to be non-supportive if it denies others to offer support and education. The rule does not prevent one from responding to different people in one post, but it does prevent one from responding with 4 consecutive posts to different people in the thread.
Members can reply if there are any number of posts by any member. The less confident member does not mean that that member is not confident, for it means that the member is less confident than another member. But that member could be greatly confident and being less confident does not mean that the member has no confidence, only less than someone else. A less-confident poster could still be confident.
I am asking you to consider removing this rule from the FAQ if you think that it is uncivil or unsupportive in any way to prevent one from offering education or support from that education.
Lou Pilder
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