I hate to say it, but if you grant posting privileges to anyone that’s ever received a single upvote, you’ve just given an easy-to-use and powerfully obnoxious weapon to anyone who feels like trolling the site. From what I remember, the offending accounts aren’t removed anywhere near as quickly as the threads they spawn are.
I do prefer requiring positive total karma, but either would be an improvement on the status quo. If you go with the weaker option and it gets abused, then the other one can be easily implemented.
I think the idea was to limit new article creation in the discussion area, not for the main site. Right now, anyone can post articles to the discussion area regardless of karma score.
Right. My concern is that anyone who’s aware of the policy and bored or disgruntled enough to bother could easily reenable spam submissions by upvoting any of the existing posts.
Although I suppose that might not be an issue if they’re scrubbed effectively enough from the site.
I hate to say it, but if you grant posting privileges to anyone that’s ever received a single upvote, you’ve just given an easy-to-use and powerfully obnoxious weapon to anyone who feels like trolling the site. From what I remember, the offending accounts aren’t removed anywhere near as quickly as the threads they spawn are.
I do prefer requiring positive total karma, but either would be an improvement on the status quo. If you go with the weaker option and it gets abused, then the other one can be easily implemented.
I think the idea was to limit new article creation in the discussion area, not for the main site. Right now, anyone can post articles to the discussion area regardless of karma score.
Right. My concern is that anyone who’s aware of the policy and bored or disgruntled enough to bother could easily reenable spam submissions by upvoting any of the existing posts.
Although I suppose that might not be an issue if they’re scrubbed effectively enough from the site.
Even a small karma requirement seems like it would be better than no karma requirement at all. Spam and trolling aren’t quite the same thing.