[tryp4vps]

It's not the flooding that is the problem.  It's the quality of some of the posts that are made.  I've been in Forums for many years.  You can get a quality poster making 20 posts in one sitting and making 20 quality posts - of exceptional quality......

Of all Forums I can see in these years, it is rare to have users making 20 posts with exceptional quality within a single day.

In most cases, users trend to post with lower quality when they want higher quantity.

There is an easy solution for that special case, though. We can suggest @Dynamo adding a whitelist to the counter, for those who continuously making over 30 quality posts per month. This will address your concern. For the rest of us, maximum 4 posts per day should be the default.

Forums aren't doing well and they are in the process of dying.  Post4vps has been doing well because of the great freedom it has allowed its members......

This is unfortunately incorrect. Freedom or respect is not the root cause. If FreeVPS admins chose a different path and kept their forum running, Post4VPS would not have been doing as good as you see today.