[Prof Morearty]

This new rule, approved by the moderators, will not affect many of you.  Its purpose is to assure all participants that they can expect to see their posts last long enough on the front page for others to notice them and have a chance to respond.  It has been added to the rules page (link above), here repeated for your information:

Do not post/attach/link more than eight images per forum in any 12-hour period: any posts exceeding this limit will be deleted. After the 12-hour period has elapsed, you may post again.

[solvegas]

Salem agreed to this?    Won't he have withdrawal symptoms?    Just kidding. 

[Spinster]

The Spinster Rule. 

I bend the knee to this new rule.

Carry on with the boobs!

[Sawyer90]

Seems quite fair, if you ask me.

Thanks for the public notice.

[Shadowmuse Blown]

While it doesnt seem to be too big a deal to me, it does seem like too much math.  Was it really all that bad?  I remember it being much worse years ago, that's for sure. 

I guess it's a tough call between balancing the reasons that the good professor has given and squashing the enthusiasm some of us get to share hot pix.

[salem]

Salem agreed to this?    Won't he have withdrawal symptoms?    Just kidding. 

I tend to split my posting in morning and evening, so I am just about ok! 

[Prof Morearty]

We don't want to dampen enthusiasm, but a limit of 16 image posts per person per day isn't really all that draconian, is it? 
And what's the math problem? Whenever you post, you are returned to the forum's first page, and when you see you have eight posts with images there, take a well-earned break.  If you need later to refresh your memory as to the time of your last post, just glance at that post and read the posting time: 12 hours gone? Post away

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[lurker]

Why not allow multiple images per post then?

[solvegas]

Why not allow multiple images per post then?

Many moons ago when the site was young people would do this. Unfortunately, people can abuse the system and so it was decided to limit people since they were violating copyright in one big post. The BEA got some nastygrams from the affected copyright holders and so two rules came about from this. One, you must claim ownership of your own work and two, you can only put one image at a time ergo the famous 1-1-1 rule.

[TheZookie007]

It's still a lot of math though...also, may be a solution for a problem that doesn't exist or that exists for a very small fraction of posters (as was acknowledged in the first sentence of this thread).

[jimmarg]

We don't want to dampen enthusiasm, but a limit of 16 image posts per person per day isn't really all that draconian, is it?  µ

My 2 cents: I've gotten used to making my occasional posts late in the evening and seeing them already on page three the next morning. No big deal, but it wasn't always like this. So, personally I'd side with old Draco and crack down even harder, but if that would cramp other people's expansive style, again, no biggie. I just miss the old BEA.   

[Prof Morearty]

I confess to a blunder on my part: I did indeed open this thread with the statement "This new rule, approved by the moderators, will not affect many of you." That was inaccurate. It should have been something like "This new restriction... will only apply to a few of you".  The rule affects everybody, in that it changes the makeup of the forum.  Before, it was possible for a couple of participants, or even just one, to take over the entire front page and push everyone else off.  During the mods' discussion, I documented a case where a post was pushed out to page 2 in less than an hour, and that by one individual. As we can see in this thread, some had no problem with this situation, but others resented it.
As I remarked below, the present situation is not exactly cruel to megaposters, allowing 16 posts a day. And those who disliked the earlier practice feel some relief.
I regret that I have to re-express my bewilderment at the charge that "too much math is involved." When you post, you are returned to the front page of the forum and can see the latest posts (the default number of them is 20), and you can count them: if you have made eight posts, stop posting. Is that too complex to implement? 
You can post again 12 hours later.  If you don't bother to remember the time of your earlier posts, you can determine it by opening your last post and reading the timestamp at the top: if it's more than 12 hours ago, post away.  If not, wait. Is that too burdensome?

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Yes, that's what I meant. I rarely post all at once. Sometimes a couple here or there. Sometimes an hour or hours apart when I get a chance throughout the day. So, I have to go back later and recheck: when we're those done? Open it up, check the time stamp. How many were there?  I'm working during the day (like most of us, I'm guessing LOL) so I'm not recording in my head when I made a post, usually. It's just fun to take a quick break here and there, check up on the forum or make a quick post.

Usually not a big deal, but it is a bit tedious.  before I could pop in fairly quick and post something. Now, sometimes not so much. I'll live, but yeah, it does suck some of the spontaneity and fun out of it when I have search and open up multiple posts for timestamps.

[Prof Morearty]

I regret the inconvenience, Shadowmuse Blown.  I confess that we thought that the "megaposters" normally made multiple postings in binges, which would make them easy to monitor. Your practice is to post one or two at a time, so it's a bit more of a nuisance for you to follow up.

Here's a tip which should make it easier: in your profile, go to
Account settings --> Modify Profile --> Look and Layout -> Topics to display per page: set that to 25. Your forum page will now display the last 25 posts, which will almost always cover more than 12 hours: the latest poster and time of post will be displayed for each of those posts.  At least, I hope so: in my case, it works on my PC but not on my Nexus. Assuming it's OK, it's easy for you to scan down and see how many posts you have made: if there are fewer than 8, you may post more. That's oversimplified, but basically valid.

To show you what I mean I attach a screencap of my first forum page at noon today GMT.  You can see that it goes back some 22 hours.  You made two posts during that time, so you could post six more without bothering to calculate exactly.

Hope that helps.

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[Magiciano]

I found this on page six.
Shouldn't it be a "sticky" on page one?
Just asking,