Check the /welcome page.
Daily post limit is set to 60 for new accounts to prevent flood/spam.
Quality post will get upvotes and reach the front page while low effort ones will get forgotten.
Poal barely has enough content to get me through the day as it is. While I'm not a fan of a small handful of users being the greatest share of posts made on Poal, if it wasn't for them blasting all day we would not have anything to dig into. An artificial daily limit on posts per user would definitely impact the content and variety of posts with no added benefit of improving post quality because it will not change what users post only how much they post. Just look at how many subs have minimum quality rules that get ignored and unmanaged by the jannies/mods. You can't fix the quality problem any more than you can get niggers to stop nigging by making laws.
I'm against putting any kind of daily posting limit per user. I don't see how it will improve quality and will only reduce the daily content to anemic levels.
Morbo, I could disregard POAL etiquette (carelessly blast out every article I see that might garner an upvote whether it was previously posted or not, not archive a damned thing, not use pic8/vid8) and post 120 or more posts a day as well as anybody (remember the volume of QStorm/QPatriot posts ~2 years ago), but there would be much screaming and knashing of teeth as quality posts are slid off the new page before they have a chance to trend and/or are stomped by new posts of the same/similar content. Anyone searching the web, reading the articles, previewing existing posts to avoid redundancy, archiving, downloading, uploading, pic8/vid8 converting would be like trying to post in handcuffs as I crank out five posts to their one in the same timeframe. Let's get Rickki6, LakotaPride, AsianOnTheMove and a few other prolific posters back so the s/all/new page is a blur again. Were you happier back then?
Morbo, I could disregard POAL etiquette (carelessly blast out every article I see that might garner an upvote whether it was previously posted or not, not archive a damned thing, not use pic8/vid8) and post 120 or more posts a day as well as anybody (remember the volume of QStorm/QPatriot posts ~2 years ago), but there would be much screaming and knashing of teeth as quality posts are slid off the new page before they have a chance to trend and/or are stomped by new posts of the same/similar content. Anyone searching the web, reading the articles, previewing existing posts to avoid redundancy, archiving, downloading, uploading, pic8/vid8 converting would be like trying to post in handcuffs as I crank out five posts to their one in the same timeframe. Let's get Rickki6, LakotaPride, AsianOnTheMove and a few other prolific posters back so the s/all/new page is a blur again. Were you happier back then?
I don't know how you use Poal or what view you frequent most, but I browse All/New and have no problem with content sliding off because I parse through the posts from newest to oldest. I don't care what page a post ends up on since I will read the post headlines going down to the last post I saw the previous day or previous stopping point. There are built-in tools for handling abusive users (the block button for users and subs) if you don't want to see posts from those users which will clean up your view significantly should you choose to use it. I blocked a bunch of subs I am not interested in and it got much better. I don't block users though.
Even when the prolific posters of the Q subs were around, I didn't have a problem with Q posts clogging up the feed. I chose not to block the Q subs so I could keep an eye on the posting habits of those users and spot things that were interesting to me. That included not blocking users like GodsAngell who needed to be watched and called out for blatant misinformation posting. Maybe I'm just different for not minding that KaliYuga is the top poster or that I see a bunch of shitposts I don't care about, but it seems to bother you. I just don't want to see another rule implemented for something that can be handled by other means which don't interfere with the user experiences of Poal members. Your mileage varies though.
Thanks for the response/alternate opinion. Discussion is key here.
I live on All/New, I try to cater to posting breaking news and insightful deeper reads/videos that go where we haven't travelled. I don't block users either, I see it all. There are a handful of subs that I'm not interested in, I think I might have 1 currently blocked but I've been using the all/new page vs POAL.co/new page that screens blocked subs. I liked the all/new page a lot, it offers posts on subjects that I normally might not read and expands my knowledge in those areas.
GodsAngell - too many posts, too much blitz, too much crap. I did not miss his/her departure. A well remembered POAL poster child for overdoing it on every metric.
As of late it is getting much harder to find my own posts on the all/new page from just an hour ago. If I go off to do other things for a few hours, come back and after extensive search find my last post on all/new page 3 or 4! I guess I will have to make changes and adapt.
Na, I can just block people who spam clickbait / low quality trash.
What poal needs is more content that isn't written to generate maximum ad revenue from clicks. There's too much outrage porn targeting mid-wit IQ level conservatives here.
What is needed is more long form substack type articles that talk about current events through poal's lens.
What poal needs is more content that isn't written to generate maximum ad revenue from clicks. There's too much outrage porn targeting mid-wit IQ level conservatives here.
Agreed. Our top posters have even admitted to not reading the content they post so a lot of clickbait gets into the feed. That can't be fixed by a posting limit rule, unfortunately. Voting doesn't even help because votes are so little used it appears. I'm guilty of not voting for posts if the content doesn't pique my interest so I can't say I'm not part of that problem. I don't know how to fix the low quality post problem, but I do know that there isn't enough posting happening on a daily basis to try to implement anything that lowers it further. It's too difficult to attract good users since we're not a typical bunch of social butterflies who are easy to get along with so we have to make do with the users we have for now. Meh.
What I do is immediately go to /all/new because there just isn't enough content in /all/hot. I'll scan /all/hot, but find that I can actually read everything posted quickly, and determine if anything good is missed.
I'ld say the problem is (in order): 1) lack of content 2) lack of quality content
2 is not a poal problem. There's an entire industry dedicated to fucking up right wing content on the internet and drawing peoples' attention to low-quality distraction bullshit.
What Poal needs is more intelligent users who aren't glowies or kike subversives who find the really good articles, post them, but then carry on conversations about them.
Na, I can just block people who spam clickbait / low quality trash.
Agree, but when 10%-20% of their posts are of something of interest to you, it becomes harder to block them because you do want to see their "quality" posts. Also, when reviewing current posts to avoid redundancy before posting something new, one might inadvertently miss a similar /same post by a blocked user. AOUs prescreen for redundancy works if the URLs are identical, but not if one is archived and the other not.
(post is archived)