I must ask...what's the difference in 10 more posts? I want to explain my full reasoning for disagreeing with this:
It's hard to think of questions sometimes. Oftentimes it's because it's the thread of someone you know really well, or more often than not you're just stumped on what kind(s) of questions you want to ask said person. Honestly, in just about most of the threads (I'd argue the majority of them but tbh I don't read any besides like Razor's/Chase's/Sophie's/Alex's threads and one or two more, I believe), you can ask the participant nearly anything, and I don't believe it has to be strictly just questions either.
The point of the Member Encyclopedia is to interact and get to know that particular user! Have a conversation with them, goof off a little, things like that. It's not as hard as people think it is, it doesn't have to be some super complex questions that you have to ask them, since a lot of people seem to be quite content (myself included) with just the little/silly things being asked.
I guess they just want to feel like a special snowflake.Yes, there may be a lack of new threads, but I see the possibility that lowering the limit only temporary increases the activity. People get motivated now, make their own AMA and when everyone who thinks they need one did, activity will lower again. So I don't know if lowering the limit will be a solution at all.
Trying to figure out what questions to ask has always been, in my perspective, an unsolvable issue and lowering postcount requirements to make a new thread isn't going to make that process easier.
If, say, you make a new thread, who's to say that people are going to run out of questions as soon as your thread reaches like, page 2 or 3? Yeah, there are exceptions like Hikari's thread and Chase's, but to me, it just seems like people have a hard time trying to be creative with questions instead of being simpler with them, if that makes sense (aka: asking more about their interests, perhaps asking some deeper/thought-provoking questions, things like that).
I apologize if this response seems...quite sloppy, but it's the best way I can articulate my response at the moment haha.