Posting this because no one else seems to want to, and it’s a discussion worth having outside of drama or personal conflicts. I’m undecided and can see both sides, but it’s important to address.

Potential benefits of a limit:

  • Frequent posters hold significant influence and could, in theory, push misinformation or propaganda (though I haven’t seen evidence of this it’s a fair concern).
  • A community dominated by one or two voices might discourage new members from participating.
  • Encouraging quality over quantity could increase the value of individual posts.

Potential downsides of a limit:

  • Could reduce overall community engagement.
  • If set too low, it might discourage meaningful participation from well-intentioned members.
  • It could inadvertently encourage the (mis)use of alt accounts.

These are some pros/cons but certainly not all! I encourage more discussion below.

  • JonsJava@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    202·
    3 months ago

    We do allow [META] posts, when in good faith and on topic.

    Allowing this to stay up.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      72·
      3 months ago

      Thanks! Of course I never had any doubts about this being left up but I do find it funny the number of people who were rudely adamant that this post was impossible, impossible I tell you!

      cc @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat @catloaf@lemm.ee I encourage you to add your input under this impossible post. :)

      • Donald Musk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        25·
        3 months ago

        cc @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat @catloaf@lemm.ee I encourage you to add your input under this impossible post. :)

        hahahahaha

        Philipthebucket likes to talk about how much he hates .world, but he’s still here looking around every day. lmao

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      62·
      3 months ago

      There ought to be rules governing these posts to keep users who don’t check the community on weekends or off hours from being blindsided by rule changes. Something like a designated day of the week for meta posts and a minimum time duration they need to be considered for.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        62·
        3 months ago

        Your comment is confusing because this is a petition post, not a rule change. I have no leadership role here. If anything changes there will most likely be internal mod communication and then an announcement post if the rule change is significant enough to merit it.

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          I mean, it’s a petition asking for a rule change, so that’s where my concern about surprise rule changes is coming from.

          I do think you and other users should be able to petition the mods for rule changes, but I would prefer a system that didn’t allow petition posts from users at any point in time, but instead encouraged petitions to be DM’d to the mod team so they could post them on a standard day of the week at a standard time and leave them pinned for user feedback for a standard duration, because that way all petitions would get as equal of consideration as reasonably possible.