I’m not sure I accept your premises? I could certainly be wrong, but I have not gotten the impression that comments can be prevented by low karma, only posts to Discussion or Main. (And I recall the minimum as 20, not 2.*) The most obvious way to get the karma needed to post is by commenting on existing posts (including open threads and welcome threads), and new users with zero initial karma regularly do this without any apparent difficulty, so unless I’m missing something, I don’t think it’s a problem?
*ETA: It seems that 2 is the minimum for Discussion, while 20 is the minimum for Main.
This threw me for a loop when I created my LW account. It took some searching around before I found this answer in the solved section of the bug reporting page for the site. In hindsight it seems simple enough, but perhaps it should be added to the wiki page on posting that you need to confirm account via email first.
Oh wow, I tried logging in to it and the reply buttons on existing comments weren’t even there. Thanks for providing the account and pointing this out.
Two hypotheses come to mind, firstly, as estimator said, perhaps you missed something about the email confirmation when you set up the account, (same for Halfwitz), and secondly, maybe it’s an IP address thing intended to discourage throwaway accounts?
This forum doesn’t allow you to comment if you have <2 karma. How does one get their first 2 karma then?
Doesn’t it? IIRC you need 2 karma to post a top-level thread in discussion, more than that to post a top-level thread in main, but none to comment.
I’m not sure I accept your premises? I could certainly be wrong, but I have not gotten the impression that comments can be prevented by low karma, only posts to Discussion or Main. (And I recall the minimum as 20, not 2.*) The most obvious way to get the karma needed to post is by commenting on existing posts (including open threads and welcome threads), and new users with zero initial karma regularly do this without any apparent difficulty, so unless I’m missing something, I don’t think it’s a problem?
*ETA: It seems that 2 is the minimum for Discussion, while 20 is the minimum for Main.
Created throwaway, couldn’t comment.
(So as to not propagate throwaways testing this, account is less_than_2, and the password is 123456)
AFAIK, you should confirm email to comment.
This threw me for a loop when I created my LW account. It took some searching around before I found this answer in the solved section of the bug reporting page for the site. In hindsight it seems simple enough, but perhaps it should be added to the wiki page on posting that you need to confirm account via email first.
Confirming confirmed :p
Oh wow, I tried logging in to it and the reply buttons on existing comments weren’t even there. Thanks for providing the account and pointing this out.
Two hypotheses come to mind, firstly, as estimator said, perhaps you missed something about the email confirmation when you set up the account, (same for Halfwitz), and secondly, maybe it’s an IP address thing intended to discourage throwaway accounts?