Re: On plenary functions

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 8/17/20 11:06 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:

> I wonder if we should have a daily message limit, at least at the 
> thread level, and if people couldn’t hold themselves to that, then at 
> the aggregate level.  That allows for due process, fair warning, and a 
> bit more inclusivity, perhaps even leading to people giving a lot of 
> thought before they press <send>.

On the flip side, it also encourages "piling on" - lots of people trying 
to shout down one or two lone voices knowing that those voices can only 
respond to a few messages.

(That's part of why I've never been a huge fan of the weekly message 
volume summaries.   Another part is that byte count is not a good proxy 
for message text volume, though that part could be fixed.)

Keith