Hand history posting limitations

Question

When I first committed to this beta, the potential that I envisioned it having with regard to in depth hand history discussion is close to perfect. The rating system is unique and will allow for a far greater emphasis on quality and not quantity (like many other forums!).

That said, HH's are very subjective. People dumping their entire days activities across multiple posts will get tiresome very quickly. Can we please institute some limits on the frequency with which people can post hands? 2 a day? 5 a day? 10 a day?

This may not be entirely optimal now, but once we're past private beta (or until it's common sense to do so), setting some pre-emptive ground rules would be beneficial.

Answer 1

I believe there is a limit at every Stack Exchange site of 30 questions per user per day. Aside from that, it would seem to go against how SE works to artificially limit the number of questions that a user can ask of a certain type. If they are good questions, by all means they should stay (and please vote them up!). If they are not good questions, vote them down (vote to close if appropriate). Moderators and/or high rep users (who come closer to moderators as rep increases) can handle specific issues as they come up, but we don't need a limiting policy to handle this.

Answer 2

I don't know much about "hand history" questions, but if what you are saying is true (I'm not saying it is or it isn't), therein lies a problem. You should not accept highly-subjective, easy-to-ask, easy-to-answer questions. They should not be part of this site.

Telling yourself that a type of question is okay as long as it doesn't get asked too much runs afoul of how Stack Exchange is designed.

Consider why you are going to hate answering these questions over and over — They become repetitive and formulaic. The solution is to create a canonical answer that describe how you are answering these question and close these highly localized questions as a duplicate.

This is a microcosm of why we discourage questions asking for "lists of ideas" or "list of shopping recommendations." There's nothing inherently wrong with asking "What do you think about…?" but in this type of merit-based Q&A site, these types of questions tend to become the low-hanging fruit that lowers the bar of entry to asking useful questions. Everyone has a story they would like to share, and there's no end of random opinion people are willing to pitch into the conversation. What gets lost is any appeal to expertise.

Subjective questions that anyone can answer with random opinion encourages a free-for-all glut that will thwart any appeal of expertise on the site. A stream of questions asking over and over, "What do you guys think? … What do you guys think? … What do you guys think?" will just as quickly fill with endless opinions. To me, that's not building a cannon of knowledge. It's a discussion board… and that's not what we do here.

Answer 3

Agreed. When (if?) the time comes, we can experiment with the right limitation to impose. I would think 5 a day is plenty.

We should maybe rather consider imposing this limit over a longer period, i.e. 30 a week or 100 a month, for days when one really has many interesting hand histories to discuss.

Lastly, perhaps implement a system whereby you can trade reputation points for permission to post hand history questions?