Flooding

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  ronscubadiver · Member · Sep 20, 2014 at 8:06 pm

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  There are some bloggers who seem to make a post every few minutes. The material is usually related enough so that it could have been done all at once. This stuff isn’t bad enough to qualify as spam, but sometimes it is close. Now what people do on their own blog is up to them, but I don’t have the time to wade through this stuff in the reader. I could mark the user so that I don’t have to see their posts, but in some cases I would prefer to know what they are doing, just not all of it.

  My suggestion is to limit the number of posts from a single blog that appear in the reader to something like two or three a day, and no more than one per hour. I see this as being a companion to the rule limiting posts to 15 tags and categories combined.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 21, 2014 at 3:51 pm

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  Great idea! Seconded.

  I don’t want any more than a single post daily from any blog to appear in my Reader.

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  ronscubadiver · Member · Sep 21, 2014 at 4:51 pm

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  Hopefully you can pass this on to the others when they get back from their conference.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 21, 2014 at 5:05 pm

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  It sounds like the blogs are spam blogs and should be reported as such

  One small problem with this proposal – some blogs such as news blogs have many articles a day, @Raincoasters new cryptosphere news blog publishes several times a day, as does Hack a Day, Retro Rambling, The Last Of The Millenniums and several others that are legit sites – your throttle would be a problem

  Me? I just ignore extra Posts I am not interested in – but I only subscribe to individual sites and no tags

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  timethief · Member · Sep 21, 2014 at 5:07 pm

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  I will not subscribe to any blog that has a record of publishing more than one post daily. Thus, I think being able to limit the number of posts from a single blog that appear in the reader would mean myself and others like me would subscribe to more blogs.

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  ronscubadiver · Member · Sep 21, 2014 at 5:36 pm

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  I agree setting limits would result in more subscriptions. I have dumped a lot of blogs for flooding. The few that I continue to follow have very good content, or visit me regularly.

  It isn’t just news blogs that make non spam multiple posts. There are some photographers that publish single image posts several times a day instead of making single post with multiple images.

  Anyway, this would clean up the reader and also get rid of some spam that presently flies below the radar, so to speak.