It’s easy to get a LW account—takes one minute—but it’s not easy to get karma sufficient to post.
It is trivially easy. You put up a comment saying “I wish to make a post about this-and-that, but lack karma. I would appreciate gifts of karma so that I could post” and lo and behold! in a few hours at most you have sufficient karma to post.
How much would a user have to know about LW to think to do that? Heck, even I didn’t think of suggesting to Caleb to do that, as that notion didn’t occur to me. You’re failing at other minds.
How much would a user have to know about LW to think to do that?
I’ve seen it happen, and more than once, too. I think all you have to know is that you need a particular quantity of internet points and that people can give them to you for free. You just ask.
You’re failing at other minds.
I will concede that my expectations of certain LW users might have been too high :-P
It is trivially easy. You put up a comment saying “I wish to make a post about this-and-that, but lack karma. I would appreciate gifts of karma so that I could post” and lo and behold! in a few hours at most you have sufficient karma to post.
How much would a user have to know about LW to think to do that? Heck, even I didn’t think of suggesting to Caleb to do that, as that notion didn’t occur to me. You’re failing at other minds.
I’ve seen it happen, and more than once, too. I think all you have to know is that you need a particular quantity of internet points and that people can give them to you for free. You just ask.
I will concede that my expectations of certain LW users might have been too high :-P