MetaTalk posts tagged with limits

this new rule is not my favorite

marble — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:30:56 -0800

"You hit your favorite limit for the day." WTF? Can someone please tell me why we have a limit, what the limit is, and why the hell it's not in the FAQ? I like to favorite things. A lot. Why is there a limit now? Am I really going to break the site if I favorite things "too much"?

Neverending Stories

jayCampbell — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:00:55 -0800

What if we never closed old comment threads? This follow-up to an old AskMe makes me wonder how many other nuggets of wisdom we miss out on. bondcliff asked, could I make my own pizza from *real* scratch. Months later, fermezporte points to a restaurant that does exactly that. When the thread gets closed, we may never know how bondcliff's own pizza tasted. This has been brought to the floor before but I'm unconvinced it would damage the sanctity of our history, or whatever the perceived risk is.

You may make another post in: 19 hours, 7 minutes, 49 seconds.

desjardins — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:48:37 -0800

Can we have a countdown timer for MeFi posts like we do for AskMe posts? How about for MetaTalk?

sockpuppetry?

lalex — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:45:59 -0800

sockpuppetry? Are tom123 and mot123 the same person? If so, it seems like a bad use of a sock puppet.

Rollover questions? $5 per question? Pony?

jbickers — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:00:17 -0800

God help me, but I'm starting a thread on getting additional AskMe questions. There are weeks that go by with no need to ask anything ... but then there are times when a second question would be a life-saver. Whatabout either (a) "rollover questions," a la Cingular's rollover minutes, say, up to a maximum of 2-3 in the bank at any time; or (b) a fee to ask a second question in one week? I can think of several times when I would have ponied up an additional $5 to ask, say, a work-related question where I knew AskMe's community would have the best answer.

Ask MeFi Experimentation

WCityMike — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:59:14 -0800

Matt, just curious as to a follow-up to this comment of yours.

AskMe posting limits?

wheelieman — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:34:14 -0800

Ok, so now that February is over, what happens to the AskMe posting limits?

I want my askme back!

SpecialK — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:10:13 -0800

Revisiting the two-week Ask limit: I still see questions scrolling off the front page daily. Has volume decreased any, or is this arbitrary limit still there just to be frustrating?

Is there a limit to the number of jobs you can post at one time?

FlamingBore — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:53:23 -0800

Trying to post three jobs to, well, Jobs. I got one posted. The "new job" link lets me fill out the form again, but no matter what I do I can't get it to post. All fields are filled, no error is being thrown. Is there a limit to the number of jobs you can post at one time?

Limits on posts for Askme, mefi

hwestiii — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:39:26 -0800

This has to have been covered before, but why one question per subscriber per week on AskMeFi, but no discernable limit (or is there) on postings to MetaFilter?

Referrals to previous threads on this subject welcomed. I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything obvious.

Post to AskMefi on my behalf?

reeddavid — Sun, 14 May 2006 15:24:20 -0800

Post to AskMefi on my behalf? I just asked a non-urgent question about tipping, but I should have asked a question about oil heat. I'm scheduled to sign a lease tomorrow, and I would really like some answers about heat before I take responsibility for buying a season's worth of oil. I'm brand new to MeFi and slipped up with the 1/week restriction; next time I'll make sure to post my urgent question first. Thanks to anyone willing to help. (My email is in my profile)

Sometimes I need more then one question a week

Izzmeister — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:20:15 -0800

Sometimes I need more then one question a week...

I'm thinking a feature would be nice where you could ask "4 questions a month" in stead of once a week.. or have unused questions (say you odnt ask a question on MeFi for a month) that would be "banked"?

alternately, I was thinking of "donate a question" or "extra questions dispensed" based on being selected as best answer?

How can I post a question on AskMeFi using the anonymous account?

inquisitive — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:39:51 -0800

How can I post a question on AskMeFi using the anonymous account ? When I login using my username and try to post a question, I see a link to post the question anonymously but if I have already posted in the past 1 week, then this link does not appear.

Remind me when I can ask another question

evariste — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:26:59 -0800

A pony: When AskMe says "you already asked a question this week", can it tell me the time and date that I'm eligible to start a new question?

Can we get the 'post a new thread' link dimmed

filmgeek — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:40:53 -0800

Can we get the 'post a new thread' link dimmed if we haven't waited enough days? (particularly for meta and ask).

Shorten AskMe Wait

Citizen Premier — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:55:27 -0800

Why is it that I can criticize Metafilter policy or features on a daily basis but I have to wait a week for help with things that are actually important? I say shorten the wait for Ask Metafilter to one or two days, because advice is a much-needed thing.

Posting limits?

mecran01 — Fri, 27 May 2005 14:11:50 -0800

so, are there differences between the posting limits (once per week) on ask.mefi and metafilter proper? In other words, once you've posted anywhere on the Mefi network, do you have to wait a week to post elsewhere, or is the posting limit unique to each area?

Also, it would be cool if "best answers" were tallied for each user, and posting frequency tied to it somehow. Or not. Please don't hurt me.

Once per seven days or once per calendar week?

Caviar — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:27:11 -0800

Once per week questions: Once per seven days or once per calendar week? Did I miss something on the first post page that said if I post, I can't post again for the next 7 days? (I'm normally attentive, but the first I noticed about this was just trying to post and being denied). Is once per week really appropriate on AskMe? Questions tend to bunch up, but then there are long quiet periods - how about no more than 4 times per month instead?

Posting limits reallocation?

Jairus — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:16:08 -0800

Instead of one AskMe/MetaTalk thread a week, can we get four a month?

There should be a comment limit per thread in MetaTalk.

y2karl — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:39:16 -0800

There should be a comment limit per thread in MetaTalk. There are people who made 50+ comments in the Alex Reynolds thread. That is just wrong. No one should be allowed to make more than a fixed number of comments per MetaTalk thread. I say five. Pile ons are not cathartic releases, mob psychology is not self-policing. This place has gone from Harrison Bergeron meets Lord of the Flies to The Jerry Springer Show meets the Married With Children studio audience. It's a waste of bandwidth, creates nothing but ill feeling and a collective sense of entitlement to say shitty things. We might as well be bearbaiting or throwing cats into bonfires.

question asking limits on ask mefi?

GleepGlop — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:13:58 -0800

question asking limits on ask mefi?

Would one post per week be better?

timeistight — Fri, 16 May 2003 09:38:19 -0800

I think that there's a consensus that the one-thread-per-user-per-day rule is a good thing. If that's so, would one post per week be better?

How about limiting the amount of text for FPPs

xammerboy — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:49:22 -0800

How about limiting the amount of text for FPPs, and a bit of text instructing those with [More] to use it?

Is it time to reconsider a one-post-per-week limit?

yhbc — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:46:42 -0800

A lot of days it seems like newer members make an equal number of posts compared to all other users combined. - jonah

His non-troll posts seem quite rare*. - websavvy

* - not to pick on hama7 again, just using his posting frequency as an example.

Frankly, there are too many things being posted now that we have all these new members ... - mathowie

Is it time to reconsider a one-post-per-week limit?

Maybe there should be a limit on MetaTalk posts.

rcade — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:39:14 -0800

Suggestion: Limit users to one MetaTalk front-page post per week.