This came up on #lesswrong IRC channel, it was not a hypothetical future problem at all.
Being discussed somewhere does not show it is real. Personally, ‘people are cycling from account to account to evade karma limits’ doesn’t seem like a real problem...
Can you be more specific on what you think the problem is?
I agree that the current (downvoting + minimum karma for Discussion) dynamic encourages creating new accounts, holding everything else equal. But I’m not sure what the downside of inflated registered-user numbers is—there’s not much sock-puppetry locally, so it isn’t clear how additional registrations can be considered relevant to signal-to-noise issues.
And there are tangible benefits to the downvoting system (helps increase quality posts, crowd-sourcing basic moderation).
This came up on #lesswrong IRC channel, it was not a hypothetical future problem at all.
Yes, I was planning on implementing, testing, submitting the fix myself.
Being discussed somewhere does not show it is real. Personally, ‘people are cycling from account to account to evade karma limits’ doesn’t seem like a real problem...
Can you be more specific on what you think the problem is?
I agree that the current (downvoting + minimum karma for Discussion) dynamic encourages creating new accounts, holding everything else equal. But I’m not sure what the downside of inflated registered-user numbers is—there’s not much sock-puppetry locally, so it isn’t clear how additional registrations can be considered relevant to signal-to-noise issues.
And there are tangible benefits to the downvoting system (helps increase quality posts, crowd-sourcing basic moderation).
Ah, cool!
Then, I have much less to complain about, offers of help are much more useful than suggestions from back seat drivers :)