But do you find it annoying that other people can’t post until they get karma? Do you wish there were more top-level posts by people with no karma?
(or, to make even more of a leading question, do you wish that new people who had an idea for a post but no karma didn’t lurk and comment for a week or two before showing their idea?)
Maybe we could use the same mechanism to protect LW wiki from spambots. The wiki registration page would be available only to people with karma at least… well, 1 should be enough. Reaching karma 1 should be trivial for any LW member, and pretty difficult for a generic spambot.
I support this enough to make a comment in addition to upvoting. Whenever I check the wiki’s recent changes page, way too many of the recent changes are spambots creating accounts or Vladimir_Nesov killing them. As MixedNuts points out, the code end is difficult, but the fix would be highly appreciated.
It’s somewhat annoying that I can’t post until I get karma.
But do you find it annoying that other people can’t post until they get karma? Do you wish there were more top-level posts by people with no karma?
(or, to make even more of a leading question, do you wish that new people who had an idea for a post but no karma didn’t lurk and comment for a week or two before showing their idea?)
By posting a comment in the welcome thread you can pretty reliably get enough karma to post in the discussion section.
That was helpful, thanks! That would have been difficult for me to find otherwise.
One word: spambots.
Maybe we could use the same mechanism to protect LW wiki from spambots. The wiki registration page would be available only to people with karma at least… well, 1 should be enough. Reaching karma 1 should be trivial for any LW member, and pretty difficult for a generic spambot.
Technical difficulties of merging the two currently independent login systems.
I support this enough to make a comment in addition to upvoting. Whenever I check the wiki’s recent changes page, way too many of the recent changes are spambots creating accounts or Vladimir_Nesov killing them. As MixedNuts points out, the code end is difficult, but the fix would be highly appreciated.