Posted by Lou Pilder on April 13, 2008, at 14:03:05
In reply to Re: Lou's request to Mr. Hsiung-devo1 » Lou Pilder, posted by Sigismund on April 12, 2008, at 18:37:51
> What I would like, Lou, is for the Administration to have a prize for the person who has stopped the most threads.
> I would hope to win it.
>
> But Lou
> What did you mean by this?....
> >If you are wanting to make your rule here so as to accommodate the less-confident member, could you not also make rules to accomodate, let's say, the less grammatically informed member or members that are less-active that post maybe once a day?
>
> Do you think that 'the less gramatically informed members' have not been accommodated here?Sigismund,
You wrote,[...What did you mean by...?]
Let us look at the componants of Mr. Hsiung's rule here concerning if someone posts mor than 3 consecutive posts or three consecutive threads.
(citation devo1)
A. Please {share} this site with others
B.May discourage {less confident} pposters
C.giving them more of a chance
D.makes it easier for them to help
E.and to feel good
I can not find a rule like what Mr. Hsiung has made here except before 1945 in relation to some systems of European government's use of {quotas} that have been ruled many times to be unconstitutional in the U.S. If anyone here can cite a rule like what Mr. Hsiung has made here for this community that is in effect now in some other community, I would like to see it posted here so that I could have the opportunity to respond to it to show if any aspects of it are not consistant with this rule here and that the rule may not involve {expression} as here but may involve time limits that I am aware of but if one posts that kind of rule here , I could respond accordingly.
Let us look at what can be seen in Mr. Hsiung's rule. First, there is the aspect of {sharing}, for he write,[...please {share} this site with {others}...]. It is my opinion that when one reads Mr. Hsiung's rule here that there is the potential for some to think that if one posts 4 consecutive posts, that they are somehow doing something to be thought by some as a person that does not share, or could take away another member's posting, for the generally accepted meaning of {to share} is to divide something up and {not sharing} then could leave someone without what you have or in another meaning one that did not share could be seen IMO in some people's thinking as to be {taking away} something that they did not share that the other person could have. I do not know what Robert Hsiung thinks in relation to how he wants the word {share} to mean here, but I do not feel good when I read his rule here.
You see, I and other members here can not tell another to not post here and since members are free to post, my posting of 4 consecutive posts still allows others to post where they like on any board or in the thread that I am posting in.
This aspect of Robert Hsiung's rule has IMO the potential for some people to use what they read in Mr. Hsiung's rule in their thinking to form a stigmatization of the person posting 4 consecutive posts as being a person that does not share,even if Mr. Hsiung's purpose of writing,[..Please share this site with others...] is different from what IMO could be the potential for some others to form in their minds when they read that about posting more than 3 consecutive posts here, for members are free to post and posting is not timed here.
This has IMO the potential to cast a false light upon me since I have posted more than three consecutive posts and object to the rule being made here that IMO could have the potential for some others to look back and see where I have posted more than three consecutive posts and have the potential IMO for some to think that by me posting more than 3 consecutive posts that I was doing something that was not good for the community as a whole, for Mr. Hsiung writes to trust him as to that he is doing, which could mean the making of the rule, what will be good for the community as a whole. more...
Lou
citation devo1
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#three
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:820778
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20080313/msgs/823057.html