This is actually a feature, not a bug. The karma threshold isn’t just there to limit who has access to features; it’s also to increase the cost of creating sockpuppets and of recovering from bans.
I think keeping some dependence on quantity is desirable, but that scaling linearly with number of posts weights it too heavily compared to variation in number of upvotes (I proposed scaling with roughly the cube root of number of posts in my explicit formula suggestion elsewhere in the comment thread).
This is actually a feature, not a bug. The karma threshold isn’t just there to limit who has access to features; it’s also to increase the cost of creating sockpuppets and of recovering from bans.
I think keeping some dependence on quantity is desirable, but that scaling linearly with number of posts weights it too heavily compared to variation in number of upvotes (I proposed scaling with roughly the cube root of number of posts in my explicit formula suggestion elsewhere in the comment thread).