A bad article should get negative feedback. The problem is that the resulting karma penalty may be too harsh for a new author. Perhaps there could be a way to disentangle this? For example, to limit the karma damage (to new authors only?); for example no matter how negative score you get for the article, the resulting negative karma is limited to, let’s say, “3 + the number of strong downvotes”. But for the purposes of hiding the article from the front page the original negative score would apply.
I don’t think this would do anything to mitigate the emotional damage. And also, like, the difficulty of getting karma at all is much lower than getting it through posts (and much much lower than getting it through posts on the topic that you happen to care about). If someone can’t get karma through comments, or isn’t willing to try, man we probably don’t want them to be on the site.
I don’t think this would do anything to mitigate the emotional damage. And also, like, the difficulty of getting karma at all is much lower than getting it through posts (and much much lower than getting it through posts on the topic that you happen to care about). If someone can’t get karma through comments, or isn’t willing to try, man we probably don’t want them to be on the site.
Ah yes, we should somehow encourage new members to try their ideas in comments rather than articles. More Open Threads perhaps?