I agree; limit the posting rate. But wait a week or two before you do so. It may just be that a lot of people had ideas they wanted to write about, and took the opening of posting as their cue to do so. If that’s the case, then the post volume should die down on its own. I don’t want good articles to be rejected, but I don’t want posts appearing faster than I can read and digest them, either.
In theory, I should be able to decide what to read by setting a score threshold, and tuning it according to how much time I have to spend. Unfortunately, many sites have tried this and it doesn’t work in practice, because the posts with the most positive votes are older, and replies to older threads are read by fewer people and earn less karma. I’d rather have an editor tell me which threads are worth my time, so I can skip worthless threads and still join discussions on the worthwhile ones while they’re fresh.
I agree; limit the posting rate. But wait a week or two before you do so. It may just be that a lot of people had ideas they wanted to write about, and took the opening of posting as their cue to do so. If that’s the case, then the post volume should die down on its own. I don’t want good articles to be rejected, but I don’t want posts appearing faster than I can read and digest them, either.
In theory, I should be able to decide what to read by setting a score threshold, and tuning it according to how much time I have to spend. Unfortunately, many sites have tried this and it doesn’t work in practice, because the posts with the most positive votes are older, and replies to older threads are read by fewer people and earn less karma. I’d rather have an editor tell me which threads are worth my time, so I can skip worthless threads and still join discussions on the worthwhile ones while they’re fresh.