"To help maintain a good conversation, we limit the number of replies from one person within a short amount of time to a given topic." Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Let me give y'all a tip on how not to hit post limits:
GET TO THE POINT QUICK AND MOVE ON!

There's a post limit?

There's a post limit?

There's a post limit?

There's a post limit?

EDIT:  Huh.  OK.  I hit the limit.  Who knew?  

The stated purpose of the post limit is to rein in spam, not to limit blowhards. If the purpose is to limit blowhards it's failing badly.

I hit the limit yesterday on a thread that I had started myself asking questions about a particular brand I'm interested in. Replied to two responses with follow up questions or thank yous. Then I was blocked for the rest of the day for participating in my own thread.

That's just stupid.

If MP wants to rein in spam there are better technological solutions. If they want to limit blowhards, the best solution is really to install a bozo filter and let everyone block the posts of those folks. Nothing works better than making people invisible. 

Señor Arroz wrote: The stated purpose of the post limit is to rein in spam, not to limit blowhards. If the purpose is to limit blowhards it's failing badly.

I hit the limit yesterday on a thread that I had started myself asking questions about a particular brand I'm interested in. Replied to two responses with follow up questions or thank yous. Then I was blocked for the rest of the day for participating in my own thread.

That's just stupid.

If MP wants to rein in spam there are better technological solutions. If they want to limit blowhards, the best solution is really to install a bozo filter and let everyone block the posts of those folks. Nothing works better than making people invisible. 

That thread was extremely unimportant and probably steps on REI's toes quite a bit. You are burnt over that really???

. Mobes wrote:

That thread was extremely unimportant and probably steps on REI's toes quite a bit. You are burnt over that really???

I'm not "burnt" over anything. But there were 71 responses, in 12 hours, so it seems odd to say it was "unimportant."

The point of discussion boards is to discuss. Even the limiting message says it's "To help maintain a good conversation." Not sure how limiting a civil, well-informed discussion does that.

There's another thread on MP that is a totally pleasant campfire conversation where people continuously run into that limit. And it's the most civil single thread on the board.

Clearly, REI owns MP and can do whatever they want with it. Maybe the forums are just a legacy thing they really don't care about at all. I'm happy to take the climbing conversation elsewhere if that's the case. 

If you're hitting that limit, you should spend some time away from your computer/phone ;)

I usually find that when I hit the limit, I get really upset and frustrated, but then I realize that it’s probably for the best and time to take a break from MP.

I think MP is trying to tell y'all something. Take a hint!

Señor Arroz wrote:
If MP wants to rein in spam there are better technological solutions. If they want to limit blowhards, the best solution is really to install a bozo filter and let everyone block the posts of those folks. Nothing works better than making people invisible. 

No more Tradiban? Count me in. Does it make all of his threads disappear too? 

This was my first time blocked, but it sounds like it happens to other people frequently on the Old Folks Having a Campfire Conversation thread. So I have an idea. Why not let the original poster decide? There could be a box to check when starting a thread. Maybe the OP could have a change of heart later on. But leave it up to the OP whether Big Brother polices the thread.

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I always find it comical that this board runs on a platform that is no more advanced than 1999.

even the My Little Bronies board supports BBCode.

you could say this board is reminiscent of the Stone Age.

there isn't even a preview post button.  it's kind of amazing how ghetto it all is.

J Squared wrote: [quote] 1 [/quote]

I always find it comical that this board runs on a platform that is no more advanced than 1999.

even the My Little Bronies board supports BBCode.

you could say this board is reminiscent of the Stone Age.

there isn't even a preview post button.  it's kind of amazing how ghetto it all is.

True. I was on The WELL back in the early 1990s. It had better functionality that whatever platform MP runs on in 2019.

Ted Pinson wrote: I usually find that when I hit the limit, I get really upset and frustrated, but then I realize that it’s probably for the best and time to take a break from MP.

This is true. It's problematic, however, when trying to sell something in the "for sale" forum and the platform won't even allow you to answer questions about your own item.

. Mobes wrote: The best is when people reach the limit so they go back in the thread and edit and add to posts! Get a life losers!

That's even worse than the limit stifling a conversation.

highaltitudeflatulentexpulsion wrote: I'm a big fan of the limits.

Sometimes it derails a conversation. More often it shuts down a blowhard who can't seem to let things go.

I can't think of a time that the limits prevented passing good information. Maybe it delayed it or someone else said the same thing.

It's very useful to keep people like tradiban et al from running wild the place.

New proposal, hit the limit 3 times in a month, 6 month ban. Hit the limit 6 times in a year, account deleted.

So I take it you want to see the demise of the discussion forums on MP.

Nick Sweeney wrote: If you're hitting that limit, you should spend some time away from your computer/phone ;)

The limit is artificially low.

J Squared wrote: I always find it comical that this board runs on a platform that is no more advanced than 1999.

Who knows how advanced it is, but it's true that it seems at least built in-house, and the dev. team just doesn't have the resources to flesh out the features and fix all the bugs. That seems like a security nightmare just waiting to happen. "Post Limits" are not a very nuanced solution to a somewhat nebulously framed problem. Post Limits, I think, are there to offload work of the admins, at the cost of the user experience.