Hey all, this isn’t a post to complain about the limit but rather a prompt for discussion.
I ran into the post limit today when throwing some content up. I completely understand the need for a limit, otherwise you could have bots posting shit all over the place. But, it is a bit frustrating for a use case like mine.
I often, after work is done for the day, sit on my back patio and go through my RSS reader to get the daily news. I decided that when I found an article worth sharing I would throw it up on lemmy. I really like this site after coming from reddit. But it feels as though, with the current smaller user base, that there simply isn’t a lot of engagement due to the trickle of content currently. I was worried about people thinking I was “spamming”, but figured the increase of content would be worth the risk of a slap on the wrist. Thus, my burst of posting hit the 5 per hour limit.
I’m wondering if it’s possible to set certain users with an elevated set of permissions that would allow someone to go from a limit of 5 per hour to something like X posts per day. These individuals can be thought of as “ambassadors”, or something more accurate because I can’t think of a good name right now. Basically, individuals who have shown not to abuse the system, and in return can provide more content to the site.
I understand that the bursty nature of my posting is a bit of an edge case, but thought it was worth discussing. It would be nice if I didn’t have to save a bunch of articles and come back every hour to post 5 at a time :)
I agree that Wikipedia’s system can be very restrictive to new users. However, I am curious what your thoughts are on their system of “autoconfirmed” users? I’m asking specifically about the part where new users accounts are limited for a few days after creation and then they gain “regular” privileges.
It’s not a perfect approach but it is a way to help curb spammers with minimal interference to regular users.
It could be something like for the first 4 days after registration you can only post 5/hr and then after that your limit is raised to 10 an hour or something.
Not sure if it’s worth the engineering effort but just throwing it out there. Hope to see this community grow!
I’d rather not have a tiered system / any priviledge based system. But when private communities come, then they’ll be able to be closed off and not viewable / have limited interaction with uninvited users.