Come on PG. Why are you insisting on playing a numbers game? You know as well as I there is no absolute number and that's not what's being suggested here.
Then you are proposing something for which there is no objective criteria to measure it. I don't buy it.
Answer me one question. If I were to post today a hundred posts on various non-travel related items to say General Travel Talk, would you object? I'm not referring to anything about anyone else here. I'm asking if for whatever reason I decided to post large numbers of whatever I wanted here, based on my personal judgment, good or bad, you would not object?
I do not know if I would or not. I see plenty of useless stuff being posted (by all including me). I do not play the role of a censor. What I consider useless is someone else's delight and vice-versa.
As I mentioned before, the ruckus is not about non-travel items being posted. The ruckus is about travel related items which is posted. I do not know why you keep coming back to talking about non-travel items.
Imagine clicking on In The News and some real news item has been pushed back to page three because I have filled it up with stories I just feel like posting.
I do not know which stories you are referring to. I assume that you have no problems with travel related news items being posted in "In The News". Apparently some people have a problem with that, and that is what my objection is to. I think that it is perfectly fine to have forum topics and then follow guidelines on what to post where (although sometimes it is still a little ambiguous of what to post where). But this notion of "too many posts" is simply nonsense.
You would not object to that? I would like to know your answer.
I hope that my remarks above clarify my position.
Because it's the same thing. Just using a different quantity in the example.
It's about the poster using their personal judgment to decide what is appropriate in this forum.
Judgment or "moderation" cannot be measured or numbered in an accountant's ledger. You know that! But a community has an obligation to not just let anyone do anything they want. They have to let that person know how they feel. Otherwise you have anarchy. Whole societies are built on guidelines and peer pressure.
There's a reason for that. You can't legislate everything. You can't have a cop on every corner. Not everything can be put down in black and white.
I'm just one of the community letting someone know that I don't appreciate some of what they do. Don't try to make it anymore than that. Thank You.
This whole notion of anarchy is really overblown.
[This message has been edited by PG (edited 03-02-2000).]