Strong endorsement of the principle that not every potential user is a net positive, and driving away potential new users is not automatically bad. Maximizing views/users/etc too much is a classic trap metric.
I think that principle would apply to ‘leaves because they couldn’t vote without 5 karma’ but could be convinced otherwise by people worth keeping saying ‘this would drive me away if I were new.’
This did drive me away from both stackoverflow and lesswrong for a long time, and what finally made me feel able to interact with them is learning that it is possible to make good posts and get karma. I think it’s a reasonable restriction, and that it creates a problem that is likely best solved another way.
Huh—making sure I get this: you were driven away by inability to upvote, but you think it is probably still better to have that restriction and find some other way to reassure people they can get karma and participate?
Assuming I understand you correctly this is a stronger-than-average endorsement of the karma restriction.
Strong endorsement of the principle that not every potential user is a net positive, and driving away potential new users is not automatically bad. Maximizing views/users/etc too much is a classic trap metric.
I think that principle would apply to ‘leaves because they couldn’t vote without 5 karma’ but could be convinced otherwise by people worth keeping saying ‘this would drive me away if I were new.’
This did drive me away from both stackoverflow and lesswrong for a long time, and what finally made me feel able to interact with them is learning that it is possible to make good posts and get karma. I think it’s a reasonable restriction, and that it creates a problem that is likely best solved another way.
Huh—making sure I get this: you were driven away by inability to upvote, but you think it is probably still better to have that restriction and find some other way to reassure people they can get karma and participate?
Assuming I understand you correctly this is a stronger-than-average endorsement of the karma restriction.