I completely understand if others are overwhelmed by my recent activity, my sincerest of apologies. The majority of my new topics are taken from articles mentioned in TheNewOil’s Mastodon , that I thought were especially noteworthy and deserving of discussion. To prevent this, should this forum impos…

Yeah the spam is too much, it would be fine if people were actually engaging with and talking about the articles, but they’re not.

Of course lol :smile: I don’t mean to put down your excitement for privacy. I see you’ve also been engaging in different discussions, which is great since that’s how this community thrives :grin:

I think Jonah mentioned having one article per thread, but maybe there should instead just be a dedicated weekly news thread?

I think the one article per thread suggestion might lead to even more spam, people could post different articles about the same circumstance and make a bunch of threads. I think what could be cool would be mutiple weekly threads, each under one topic. Like data breaches, government related news, no…

We may simply need a rule that a single person can’t post more than 1-2 news articles until: Your post(s) have replies; or 24 hours have passed. I have not noticed an issue with under-discussed news in general, but I think it is overwhelming to readers when many posts are submitted at once by the…

That works for me! Come to think of it, maybe a similar rule could be applied to posts in general. I haven’t really noticed people, especially non-team members, need to post that much a day. How about 3 posts a day for non-news topics until 24 hours or a reply? At the same time, there doesn’t seem …

This is also a good point. I don’t want to discourage newsworthy blog posts if they are independent, original reporting though, but if they are just blogs referencing other news content it is probably best to find other sources. I didn’t actually look at all the articles in question yet because I am…

[image] jonah: We may simply need a rule that a single person can’t post more than 1-2 news articles until: I’m open to that idea. For the sake of avoiding spam of course. [image] anonymous261: When PG had “This Week In Privacy” I thought that was really cool. Maybe the solution could re…

I am against those strict limits. At least there shouldn’t be those kinds of limits for actual news posts from regular news organizations. If you are talking about blog posts, I haven’t seen too much spam. I don’t think heavy posting is spam. If we are talking about eg TheNewOil creating random acco…

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I’ll add that the General > News category is intended strictly for news articles which a lot of your posts are not. Blog and social media posts do not belong in the news category.

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