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Should Lemmy potentially add an hourly post counter to help users avoid flooding communities? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Given the general Lemmy guideline that users should avoid posting more than 5–10 times per hour in a single community (to prevent flooding the overall network), would it make sense for Lemmy to implement some kind of Hourly Post Counter?

For example, a small indicator that shows how many posts a user has made to a given community in the past hour—like “3/10 posts this hour”—maybe visible when posting or on your profile.

Perhaps have it so that if users go over the limit, they get an error message.

It could help users stay within the community norms, especially since Lemmy doesn’t have as many active users as Reddit, and frequent posting can have a larger impact here.

Do you think this is a helpful idea?

Or would it just take up space?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why not just fix the algorithm so you don't get spammed with those posts? Limit posts from one community to 1 or 2 per page so it's at least spread out.

It's kind of a growing pain issue honestly. As lemmy grows and more people post in more communities it shouldn't be as much of a problem. I don't know if self regulation like that will really affect the serial posters though.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I just wished there was more cross posting intelligence so we don't have duplicate posts filling up pages. Like if they creates checksums of the posts that clients can use to filter out duplicate posts.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

I hear Piefed has the cross posting intelligence. It's hard to tell when using it though because... Well hard to notice a fix like that. I using it on my PC but haven't found a good android app yet.