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.
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.