I'd say No. It's hard to do more than a post a day, allowing 5 will just result in a deterioration of quality. 

Also, the minnows have a hard time already, you don't want their posts to get crowded out by the whales and favourites posting even more than they are.

it would also increase the burden of curation, imho.

I don't like it.

High reputation means you have done well on the site.

What we actually need to do is help the little fish.

There are only a few key things steemit must accomplish:
A) attract the best content
B) attract all the people
C) retain all the people

A + B works. 

C) is the problem. You can see that while we have new users coming in, the activity on steem has been stagnant. This shows we have a retention problem.

So anything we do must be about keeping people engaged with the site.

I have seen many people get excited, only to be disappointed after posting much and getting nothing, only seeing others make 10s of thousand.

I don't see how having folks that make much anyway allow to post more, helps with this issue.

Possibly. I am only doing 1 or 2 per day so far.... hehe...

What about the reverse? To give more potential rewards incentive to those who are just starting so that they can climb? Instead of providing more reward possibility to those who are already established, have followers, and probably make a decent amount of Payout Potential each time they post? It's not equitable to give those who have more popularity, even more posting quantities, as that simply maximizes more upvote potential payouts for them, while the little fishes have to work even harder for exposure to get recognized. This is why I think it should *maybe* be the reverse.

I would also like to have a quality control mechanism if people keep posting over and over but it's essentially garbage, that at some point, they either stop or they get penalized. I don't appreciate much how there is only a "new" feeder for everyone to go to and there is so much "trash" low quality posting going on IMO, that it clouds the feed from higher quality content accessibility. I checked one person this morning, and they had over 1000 posts, and the titles were non interesting quality information, yet they keep posting that low quality garbage. 

I am looking to make steemit into a high quality information source of meaningful posts that target the state of our world and the means to change it for the better. That's my goal in getting SP and curating!

Thoughts?

Thanks! Take care. Peace.

EDIT. 
No offense, but I look at your posts, and I only see 1/2 or less that is meaningful. I don't want you to add more of that low quality to this platform. No thanks on your proposal. I see why you want it though LMAO.

I think that it is quite difficult to quantify 'a contribution to the ecosystem' because ultimately, the biggest thing that benefits everyone, is more buyers of Steem tokens than sellers. 

There is more than a few, and you can probably even find some of them, some people have tried to shine the spotlight on them, people who have invested in steem, in order that they can score curation rewards, and then shortly after, are powering down and cashing out. 

And it is also very problematic that this commonly expressed wish to win big vote scores and post rewards, do you think these people are just powering up their steem? **HAH!**

No. But, on the bright side, there is a dynamic at play that takes time to manifest. There is small investors, and those who are just trying to work their way up by posting good, upvoted posts, who are seeking to accumulate as much vested SP as they can, because ultimately, this platform lives or dies according to how much people are willing to hold in it. SP does not go up or down no matter how vote rewards are divvied out. SP also takes a long time to cash out. The pump and dump whale investor crowd, are gonna be feeling pretty stupid as they discover they have to wait 2 years to get all their SP back out after they powered up to become whales.

I think it's absolutely genius how the system was designed. Waving the flag for steem, in whatever form it may take, is the best way to win, in the long game, the most rewards. The Crab Buckets metaphor is intended to explain it, but sadly most people on here don't understand it. The smart contracts in the system reward those who seek to expand the system, and punish those who are stupid enough to think this is just another random cryptocurrency they can game and skim a profit off the top without actually investing in it.

It will take time for it all to shake out.

I'd prefer the limit on posts to allow others a chance to publish and get noticed and improve their reputation. People don't post to Medium multiple times a day, and I think this is becoming more like Medium than Reddit or Facebook. That's my thought.

I think higher reputation allowing for more posting is fine, but are the people who are making a lot of money making a lot of posts per day? No, quality over quantity!

#### I can't decide whether this would be better or not.

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### PROS
* I could make more posts
* I would avoid accidental penalties
* I could potentially earn more each day

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### CONS
* There would be a lot more new posts to compete with every day
* Voting power decreases with the more votes a user makes
* Even if a whale did vote on my post, it might not be worth as much then

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The other day I believe I was penalized for exceeding the four post limit, though, to my understanding, I had only made four posts that day. Perhaps it is based on a 24 hour period or another time zone. I'll have to figure that out.

Maybe the post by @gridcoinman mentions something. I'll have to take a look. Good idea anyway and I'm glad you're thinking!

In that case I would also suggest to implement a reputation market, so people who want publish more posts could purchase some reputation from these who don't )

I'm not sure about this.  I think we already have too many posts to deal with.