[AEC Decision] Posting Limit

Proposal
From the Community Guidelines:

Consider your audience. We're not a place to "dump" every piece of work you've ever written. Please post in moderation. Post a range of your work. But mostly, post the work you'd like to improve.

I'd like to introduce the possibility that we might have a "hard" limit on the number of poems a person can post each day.

A few points in favor (in no particular order):

• It would reduce the "surge" of poetry coming down the stream all at once from over-enthusiastic new members
• More members would get personal feedback on their work
• It would enforce a focus on quality, rather than quantity
• It would help emphasize that we are, at our core, a workshop and not a portfolio
• It would focus the discussion on new work that members wants to improve, rather than stale pieces where members  might instead be looking for validation. 

Against:

• It's somewhat authoritarian; every new rule and limit strips away some freedom, even if it's exercised
• Perhaps somebody might have a compelling reason to post a few dozen poems in a day

Again, we are discussing a "hard" limit, and not a guideline. The member looking to post his X poem of the day into the stream will get a message like, "We are sorry. We ask that you only post X poems a day".

We do not want to necessarily discourage people from posting all of their work on Neopoet -- perhaps, if we do adopt this proposal, we can let members post their work into an area other than the stream. And, of course, we will not have any limit on the number of comments, forum threads, or short stories a member may post.

Decision
The AEC has decided to implement this proposal. Poem submissions to the "stream" are limited to one per day. Other forms of submission remain unlimited. Revision is unlimited.

The AEC plans to revisit this issue in about thirty days to judge the success of the policy.