Posted by Deputy 10derHeart on December 23, 2007, at 0:56:58
In reply to Question regarding post rules, posted by rskontos on December 22, 2007, at 13:24:02
> On the social board, I was wondering if the do not post more than 3 threads was the same.
Yes. Writing is the only board where Dr. Bob has historically allowed it to be completely relaxed, AFAIK.
>And could you define, the playing around scenario.
Ahhh...you mean in the FAQ:
"Playing around with others at Psycho-Babble Social.?" Right?
That's kind of hard - for me at least, to precisely define. I'd almost need to find an example, and I'm not sure if I can do that. I think the overall intent of the rule was not to have any one poster, or perhaps several more 'long time and confident group of posters' - to appear to monopolize a board or thread, since some newer or more reserved folks might feel overwhelmed and like it wasn't okay to join in.
OTOH, I think Dr. Bob didn't want this rule to be so hard and fast or rigid that on some cases one poster couldn't creatively say, use single words to write something vertically.... (that might need more than 3 posts) or, once I recall an ongoing story many posters wrote by adding parts to it, where maybe one poster added to it more than 3 times in a row, just to keep it going. I'm trying to describe those more humorous or unusual postings [again, it's tough to paint a word picture of 'playing around' till it happens!] wouldn't be required to comply with this rule under the 'playing around' exception - for what appears as a one-time thing for the purpose of the creative look of consecutive posts/threads, or to complete a joke, story....rather than a poster just "taking over" a thread or board and posting many times with no apparent room/time for others. [Not that posters mean to do that at all, it's more the possible *appearance* of multiple, repetitive postings to less confident posters.]
That's the best I can do......sorry I know it's 'bout as clear as a muddy stream.... Perhaps another deputy will rescue me?
Just a cautionary reminder (and you probably don't even need it) if you have a specific concern about a poster/threads started anywhere on Babble, you will probably want to use the Notify the Admin... button instead of posting that question or further clarification here :-)
Respectfully trying to help....
-- 10derHeart
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