[deanhills]

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.

I saw regular instances of bulk quality posts at GigaRocket while we were still offering VPSs.  Someone who wants a VPS and did the 25 posts all in one session - like a quality member who read the rules and knew what was expected.  The posts also sometimes indicated the maturity of that person Linux wise and VPS management wise, that I sometimes immediately responded with a VPS.  Like for me those posts were so good - they made it worth my while reading through them.  And of course someone writing those posts is a quality member in my eyes.  There weren't many of them, but there were at least enough of them to make me happy.  I always ended up learning from their posts. 

Must say I miss it, but every now and then, but more rarely now, there is a quality member who makes some good posts for a shared hosting account.  Could be because he was inspired by the Forum.  I think there is more than just expecting a member to make quality posts in his own merit.  He has to be motivated by something in the Forum that inspires him to make quality posts.  Could be the discussions already made that are quality and get him to respond as they were thought provoking, or the way the Forum is laid out.  Or maybe knowing of the owner and the tech admin at GigaRocket - like having respect for them and wanting to make quality posts.  Could be many reasons but at GigaRocket it does happen from time to time.  Just much less now with the shared hosting accounts - but it still happens though.  A quality poster who wants to get a shared hosting account on the fly and makes all of his 10 posts in one session.  And makes my day as well, as I love to read quality posts.  Makes me very happy.  Doesn't even have to be perfect quality posts.  Can be someone with a sense of humour who has some interesting contributions - even in a couple one-liners. 

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.

To be honest, I've given up that my opinion matters in this.  My suggestion is probably going to be ignored as much as other suggestions have been ignored in the past as well. But thank you for at least validating my suggestion by responding to it.  I'll probably make less posts than I used to to be honest, this thread has not motivated me to make more posts.  Reason I also went all out in the past and posted as much over here is that I felt I had to do this because of the great VPS I received.  I wanted my point total to justify ownership of VPS 9, which I think I've succeeded in doing.  I'll still post more than the 20 posts needed per month because I like post4vps forum very much, but I don't think I'll post to the same volume I have in the past.  I'll try not to exceed 2/3 posts per day, and try and get used to not visiting the Forum every day - like that isn't really necessary any longer.

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.

I joined Post4vps two months before freevps went under. The community I found at post4vps.com already existed as it does now before freevps went under. I specifically was attracted to freevps.com because of the relaxed atmosphere here.  It was so easy to make posts and I found myself naturally coming back to make more posts.  Atmosphere at FreeVPS was very tense with "us" the staff vs "them" the members issues - like there wasn't much regard coming from the staff to the members - they were pretty cynical of the members.  If you check around that time there were some discussions here at post4vps in the shoutbox about how members found it easier to post at post4vps than at freevps.   I agreed with them, as I myself found myself second guessing the quality of my posts at FreeVPS to the extent I needed to re-edit them or delete them quite often.  It was anything but a relaxed Forum to post to. You scarcely opened a topic and it got locked almost immediately. If FreeVPS admins decided to keep their forum running as it was, it probably would have died a natural death eventually - they would have had to change how they deal with the members first.  The VPSs were drying up fast and standard of Giveaway Process dropped enormously. Post4vps was probably doing better VPS wise at the time when the Admins at FreeVPS decided to call it an end. At the time they made their decision there was virtually no posts being made either.  I was one of about three members posting at the time.  And that was before the announcement was made - not after.  I'm not at post4vps because freevps ended.  I'm here because I really like the Forum very much.  I also have great respect for the owner and staff.  And I feel the other way round as well.