When I take quizzes online for classes, I can only take the quiz one time. After that one time, I get a message saying I've already taken the quiz and the page is no longer available to me. I don't know how it works, but it does.
Is there a way, please, that something like this can be applied to ProU? Because, today especially, the amount of posts by the same person (people) at once is ridiculous. It makes me not want to participate anymore because, what's the point? My blog will be gone in 2 minutes behind, not only the posts other people have made (one at a time), but also the 10 or more posts that one person has submitted within a 20 minute period.
I'm not trying for the scholarship anymore. I'm pretty ok with a Stafford loan. But I do care that people are writing good, well thought-out blogs and I have to sift through 8 or 9 pages of the exact same avatar before I can get to them.
Could you elaborate a little more as to what you're asking. At first, I thought you were talking about the multiple posts (which we sorta found a solution to, but it caused some big glitch that wasn't worth it, so now we just have to go in and delete them manually). But I don't think that's what you're talking about.
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No, the multiple posts don't bother me.
One user has posted 7 different blogs in the 4 hours they've been a member. Yesterday someone posted 11 in a row.
I know there's not actually a rule against it but... maybe there could be?
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People are posting 4 blogs in 2 hrs, a little ridiculous. I mean how thought out can they be? So I agree, some sort of limit to your number of blogs in a certain amount of time is a great idea.
Some people join the site and transfer their old blogs, from another site, over. They can be incredibly well thought out, it just might not appear so, because the blogs are posted within 10 minutes of each other.
The only way we've seen to do that is to limit the number of blogs you can post in 24 hours. But, that doesn't stop someone from posting that number within 5 minutes.
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Remember that while people may post 4 blogs in 2 hours, they may have spent hours on each blog prior to logging in.
While I often type my blogs 'on the fly,' I generally find an article the day before, read it and analyze it and think about what I want to say... all LONG before it becomes a blog post.
i agree with you there probably should be a limit because i think some people are just posting and posting and posting to be in the race for the scholarship.
I don't necessarily think there needs to be a mechanism on the site that keeps us from constant posting, but this needs to become a rule. I'm trying to post blogs so that only one of my blogs is on the list (recent posts) at a time. I don't want to push someone off the list with a multi-post diatribe about toenail fungus.
But...then there's people who ignore common courtesies like this. I've been informing those who are new to the site about this general rule but it's hard to keep up.
Is there anyway to limit what's posted in an hour? That might be a little more fair. Some of us don't have the incredible read counts of ediblewoman and need to make up for it with more blogs and more comments.
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It takes me over two hours just to write one blog! Mvenus is probably right, though. Newbies may be just pasting blogs from other sites. I find it very time consuming to research for my blogs, so I am sure it's just as time consuming for others.
Are you thinking more about the content of certain blogs? Like quickly written blogs about nothing of any importance?
I think it is the thing with newbies (and those not so new) copying and pasting from other places like 7, 8, 9, 15 blogs in a row.
It's irritating, but these days I just deal with it.
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When I was a newbie, I think I posted two blogs from my blog on Blogdrive because those were the only ones I could call "progressive". I think I even edited them so they sounded a tad more intelligent.
I don't mind reused blogs from other sites. I do mind people who post one blog after another. You know what happens? They sign up, then realize they're gonna need a ton of points, and just start posting blog after blog with the false hope of winning the contest. And unfortunately, most of these people don't seem to want to improve. They just want to take the easy way out.
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Sometimes the only time to post them is all at once. I think the people that do this will weed themselves out. I write mine ahead of time, and would probably post them all at once every few days or so if it werent for the "recent posts" feature. Instead, I tell myself that I will space them out over a few hours but never do.
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