what if it took, say, three months and X number of posts before you’re allowed to vote?
Might work. Has anyone reading this got experience of such systems? (The obvious concern is that it would drive away “good” users as effectively as it would drive away “bad” ones, so that it would slow growth without actually making the overall pattern of growth any more favourable.)
I’m not sure if I like the basic idea, but tying it to the new users’ karma would favor good users over bad (for certain values of good).
Hacker News uses this sort of system: there are thresholds for things like being able to vote, being able to downvote, etc., and they are all based on your karma score. The same is true on Stack Overflow, though that’s a very different kind of site.
Both of them see frequent complaints that they’re going downhill, but it’s hard to be sure whether that’s anything more than standard “the world was better in my young days” thinking (which I think results from a general tendency to remember good things better than bad things).
I’m not sure if I like the basic idea, but tying it to the new users’ karma would favor good users over bad (for certain values of good).
(Your quoting is slightly broken.)
Hacker News uses this sort of system: there are thresholds for things like being able to vote, being able to downvote, etc., and they are all based on your karma score. The same is true on Stack Overflow, though that’s a very different kind of site.
Both of them see frequent complaints that they’re going downhill, but it’s hard to be sure whether that’s anything more than standard “the world was better in my young days” thinking (which I think results from a general tendency to remember good things better than bad things).
Frustratingly, the help doesn’t say how to do nested quotes.
Hmm, let’s experiment.
This line is normal.
This line is normal.
All those lines are separated by blank lines. (Not doing so produces bad results.)
Ok, I think I have it working.