How much posting in one day is too much?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m the kind of person who reads this board every day. When I read a thread and think about some point of it that I would like to post, I usually make a note of it. Since I read here and various other sites until I’m ready to go to bed most of the time, a lot of times these would-be-threads are noted and saved for a later time. I try not to start more than one a day, but dammit, my thread cup runneth over!

I also have a bad habit of posting a reply to a thread I have some hopefully meaning info to, and then suddenly going on a Post-al rampage and end up posting in about 15 different threads within the next hour. (I appear to be doing this as we speak)

So how much is too much? I seem to remember not long ago a newer doper (Roland Deschain?) got pitted for posting so many times in so many days. I also know we have superstars like QED whos post count per subscription time are quite astounding. (please chime in if your on, QED.)

Thoughts?
The MeatBeast

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I think there are several different issues here. First, I think what really bugs people is not total posting a lot overall but posting a lot of new threads. That’s what bugged certain people about Roland.

Churning out a lot of new threads pushes other people’s material off the top pages, where they are most likely to be seen. Also, if the threads are inane, then they will irk people for that reason.

On the other hand, if you have good content to offer in a lot threads, I don’t think your posting a lot will bug people.

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I recall one fellow who’s first 100 posts were done within 24 hours, and only a couple were on “post party” threads.
Was that excessive? No, I don’t think so. Although for myself the limit is about 2.

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Two?! You have 18 posts in five years! If you posted at two a day, you should have more than thousand by now.

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I think the short answer is, if you’re not being a Jerk, then no amount is too much.

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It depends on the content, really.

If your posts are vapid and don’t add much to a thread and you do it often, then I would say you’re posting too much but if you are replying to threads in helpful and meaningful ways, it doesn’t really matter how often you post.

What some people seem to forget or don’t even realize is that this board is friggin’ huge. Thirty posts a day (QED’s average, give or take) seems like a hell of a lot of posts but really isn’t if you’re on the board for about three or four hours a day. That breaks down to about 8 posts an hour or one post every seven minutes. That’s not really that much if you’re bored and reading a lot.

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Ooooops…I do the don’t-post-for-a-month-then-post-a gazillion-times-in-one-night thing. I feel icky now.

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Replying to this Thread puts me at One over the Limit. :smack:

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Any more than seven and you need to be put in hospital.