It seems there is a dearth of questions here, compared to several years ago.

Should this not be in Meta?

you go @Symbeline

Geez…Meta, Social, who cares? I could put in federated where there hasn’t been anything in 10 months. I think Fluther Jumped the Shark when it thought it was going to be the next social wonder website and it just wasn’t. We drowned ourselves in moderators and bullshit. (apologizes to auggie and others..Bendrew…but really?)

I suppose it keeps the spammers at bay. I don’t know any jellies who can turn out three questions per day, every day, and still have them all be thought-provoking, fun, or helpful questions. And some do submit that many.

The three a day limit is nothing new. Don’t know when it was implemented, but it was like that when I got here. I swear!

And it’s not counter productive. Two reasons.

One, it prevents flooding, and forces most of us to make our questions count. We have repetitiveness and whatnot, but this rule probably thins out a lot of that. (check out places like AnswerBag or Yahoo Answers, where you slog through a million questions and one out of fifty is worth reading)
Second, yes, the site is slow, but it has not always been as such. There was easily five + pages of questions a day a few years back. This three question a day limit is not what’s killing the activity here. That itself has to do with us being on Google’s black list, and now we’re hard to find. People leave quicker than the place gets filled. Mods or staff could explain this better than I, but the decreased activity has nothing to do with this rule. My first years on here are a testimony to that, in one session I could never get through all the questions.
The activity has picked up a bit though, in the last months.

One thing is that questions are linear. Ones with the most recent answer don’t float to the top like in other forums. So when someone comes in with no limit they could easily push your (legit) question to where it won’t be seen with 50 “What is your favorite” questions.

The limit wasn’t always there. They added it because the frontpage was getting bombarded with shit from a single person.

Thanks @johnpowell and @Symbeline . JP, you look a bit different, but still awesome. @Symbeline : What’s with the Google black list?

@Sueanne_Tremendous Something about Fluther no longer being on the top searches or…something. Hopefully someone can explain this better than me, but I think it occurred when Ben and Andrew (founders) went off to work over on Twitter. (I’ll stand corrected)

@Sueanne_Tremendous :: Google did a update to how they rank sites. Fluther went from being way at the top to barely ever seen.. So traffic dropped about 70%. And the people that come here from google are the ones paying the bills so that hurt a lot since you don’t see ads when logged in.

So a sort of spiral…

I like the three question limit. Even with it, though, we sometimes get one Jelly asking the same question in three forms…

“Why don’t guys hit on me?”
“How do you impress a guy you just met?”
“Why are guys suddenly ignoring me after my hair cut?”

Imagine what it would be like if these people could keep on posting. Fluther would become the new Yahoo Answers. No thanks.

I think it’s good that there aren’t a whole lot of people here. It’s nice that annoying questions about dreams and teenage relationships aren’t a daily occurrence here.

And like someone else said, that rule is not new.

What happens if I dream about a guy? LOL