I don’t know if this is possible what with the OGS forums being a 3rd party application rather than bespoke in-house development, but given recent activity I think for “hot topic” threads the ability to put a post rate limiter (e.g. you can’t make a post within 1 hour of your last one) on ALL users in just that topic could improve the quality of the discourse.
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This feature already exists with the forums software (Discourse). As a demonstration, I have just enabled it for this thread. Each user can only post once every ten minutes. This effect lasts for two days. This is just a demo and all of these parameters are customizable.
In the past, I’ve suggested that this might be useful as a gimmick for some forum games.
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Note: moderators are not limited by this restriction
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Lol that’s who we need it for
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Interesting… then I think more use should be made of it! Though as benjito says, mods can be hot-headed humans too so it should apply to them as well.
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Useless if someone uses multiple accounts to argue in the thread.
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What about blitz topic: it automatically closes if no one posts reply in a hour
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Well that’s just an insta-ban.
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That feature also exists (for example, a 3-month time out is applied to posts in #ogs-development since some technical discussions can quickly become obsolete).
By combing the two options, you could play a silly little forum with people trying to end up as the last poster.
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Result: walls of text instead of one-liners.
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I dunno, this thread has been satisfyingly concise.
I really do think the emoji curse went underappreciated.
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What purpose would that serve?
Does it also prevent editing comments?
Otherwise I’m looking forward to threads where each person posts a single comment, and keep editing it to reply to others.
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Partially, regular users can still edit their comment within a few minutes, but edits of older comments count as a new post.
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What good should come from letting a bad situation escalate without any checks? I am in favour of measures that cool heated situations. In my experience it usually benefits the situation imho