Re: Limiting postings -- looking at numbers

[Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

"Guy McDonald" <> wrote...

Ooooo, numbers. I like numbers. 

> It would be interesting to see if a 7 day period would yield the same
results.

Your wish is my command. 

I picked June 23 @ 00:00 thru June 29 @ 23:59. 7 consecutive 24 hours. Before
this civility thread and before the holiday. A typical 7 day period. Here are
the numbers. 

Total posts 467 from 136 unique listmembers

1 post/day limit
Reduced total message count by 144 (31% reduction)
10 listmembers affected.

2 post/day limit
Reduced total message count by 90 (19% reduction)
6 list members affected.

3 post/day limit
Reduced total message count by 54 (12% reduction)
5 listmembers affected

4 post/day limit
Reduced total message count by 28 (6% reduction)
2 listmembers affected

5 post/day limit
Reduced total message count by 14 (3% reduction)
2 listmembers affected

Posting numbers
 
amdohlman -at- uwalumni -dot- com - 1
Anameier, Christine A  -  Eagan, MN - 1
Anastasia -at- joost -dot- cx - 1
Andrew Plato - 5
Anita Legsdin - 2
Anthony Davey - 1
Archimede Ziviello - 1
ASUE Tekwrytr - 1
bethany_rusbasan -at- leco -dot- com - 1
Bill Burns - 1
Bill Swallow - 9
Bonnie Granat - 8
Bruce Byfield - 6
Bruce Wolf - 2
Bulloch, Scott - 1
Carol Anne - 1
Carol Gilbert - 3
Chris Knight - 2
Chuck Martin - 3
Cindy Kight - 4
Cindy -dot- Metzger -at- Dukane -dot- spx -dot- com - 1
claudia -dot- sutton -at- sympatico -dot- ca - 1
Con & Yu - 1
DaLy - 5
Dan Glovier - 5
Darren Barefoot - 1
David Castro - 1
David Chinell - 1
David Knopf - 1
DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com - 4
Diane Boos - 2
Diane Evans - 4
Diane Newbury - 1
Dick Margulis - 24
dmbrown -at- brown - inc.com - 3
Domaschuk, Rob - 2
Edwin Wurster - 1
Eric J. Ray - 1
Erika Yanovich - 1
Fargas, Adrienne - 1
fbelton -at- octigabay -dot- com - 1
Finch, D Ted - 13
Foster, Willow - 1
France Baril - 7
Gary S.  Callison - 1
Gene Kim - Eng - 2
GeneK - 25
George Mena - 1
Gerry Loiacono - 1
Gill, Harold B. CONT (NALC SSG) - 1
Goober Writer - 42
Guy - 1
Hart, Geoff - 1
holmegm -at- attbi -dot- com - 3
howdyd -at- buffnet -dot- net - 1
ICorrino -at- cs -dot- com - 1
ilana -at- mel -dot- kesoftware -dot- com - 1
ilana -at- mel -dot- kesoftware -dot- com - 1
J. Ressler - 1
Jan Henning - 6
Jason Willebeek - LeMair - 1
Jean Hollis Weber - 1
Jeff Hanvey - 6
jenny_berger -at- fairfieldresidential -dot- com - 3
Jeroen Dekker - 1
Jim Shaeffer - 2
Jo Francis Byrd - 2
joanne grey - 2
John Fleming - 1
John Posada - 42
Karen Casemier - 2
Karen E. Black - 6
Kat Nagel (lists only) - 1
Kathryn Marshall - 1
kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com - 5
Kerstin -dot- Molthagen -at- etas -dot- de - 1
Kevin Cheek - 2
Kim Roper - 3
Kirsten Zerbinis - 3
Korth, Deanna - 1
Kumar, Sunilkumar - 1
Laura Lemay - 1
Lauren Tozer - 1
Lisa A. Roth - 1
Lisa Bronson - 1
Lisa Wright - 6
Logan Jackman - 1
Lydia Wong - 1
Lyn Worthen - 1
Maggie Pierce Secara - 6
Marguerite Krupp - 6
Mariana Prusorova - 2
Mark Baker - 15
mark Dsouza - 1
Mark L. Levinson - 2
Martin Page - 1
Mike O. - 4
MList -at- chrysalis - its.com - 8
Nadine Underwood - 1
Nancy Kaminski - 1
Peter - 1
ptietjen -at- vt -dot- edu - 2
Renee Dekenah - 1
rgoldber -at- mobius -dot- com - 1
Richard Combs - 2
Richard G. Combs - 5
Richard Lippincott - 2
Rick Henkel - 2
Robert Plamondon - 1
Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- pinnaclewest -dot- com - 10
Rowles, Carol - 1
S Rush - 1
Samuel Choy - 3
Schermerhorn, Robert - 3
Sean Brierley - 26
Sean Hower - 2
Sheila Carlisle - 2
Smith, Martin - 1
Solena -dot- LEMOIGNE -at- fr -dot- thalesgroup -dot- com - 2
Solveig Haugland - 2
Spreadbury, David C. - 1
Stephen Arrants - 2
Steven Brown - 2
Stevenson, Rebecca - 1
surfer_924 -at- earthlink -dot- net - 1
Susan W. Gallagher - 4
Suzanne Chiles - 2
Svi Ben  Elya - 2
tgr -at- lanminds -dot- com - 1
Tom Galloway - 1
Tom Murrell - 3
twriter01 -at- mindspring -dot- com - 1
Victoria Nuttle - 1
Wade Courtney - 1
Wrobel, Hal - 1
TOTAL: 467


I think this proves that even with a 1 post per day limit, the affect to the
list would not be disasterous. Although it would stop 31% of the posts, only 10
list members of 136 (or 7%) would be affected by the limit. 93% would not be
hindered (on average) by the 1 per day limit. 

And of those listmembers that would have been affected, 5 listmembers had 86%
of the limit violations. 2 listmembers would have had 49% of the violations.

For this given week - 9 listmembers accounted for over 50% of the traffic on
the list. That's 7% of the posters that week submitted 50% of the posts. Or, if
you go off of published membership numbers of 4000 members, 0.23% of the
listmembers posted 50% of the topics for a given week. 

I believe that these numbers demonstrate that even a 1 post per day limit would
not dramatically affect the grand majority of the list members.  93% would not
be affected. Only a small fraction of the listmembers would see their posting
affected. 

Andrew Plato 

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