Kudos to you for trying to find a solution to FT's ills.

For the most part I have ignored most of the more heated threads, so perhaps I'm missing something ... but my question is this ... have the actual problems been identified (and I'm not referring to a person here) and does your proposal address them?

From what I have read it seems many people find the problems to be:

a) inaccurate posts
b) abundance of posts by individual poster
c) boasting within posts
d) repeating what the poster's already posted

It seems to me, your suggestions perhaps address issues that are not related to the problems many are complaining about, but I could certainly be wrong.

Would a moderator prevent someone from patting him/herself on the back? Would he limit the amount of times someone could post a day? Would moderators have to know the details of each promotion/offer/mileage program to make sure posters are providing accurate information?

While vulgarity and attacks can clearly be controlled and stopped, lack of manners cannot. And if the only thing we can really eliminate is attacks, it seems there might be a less complicated solution.

[This message has been edited by letiole (edited 03-05-2001).]