So for the most part I’m really happy with it—I think it’s got a great UI and a great feel. I haven’t much used the Dialogues feature (not even reading them), but they don’t interfere in any way with the rest of my experience.
One thing I think might need some tuning is the feature that limits the post rate based on the karma of your previous posts. I’ve once found myself rate-limited due to it, and the cause was simply that my last 20 comments had been in not particularly lively discussions where they ended up staying at the default 2⁄0 score. Now I suppose you could construe that as “evidently you haven’t said anything that was contributing particularly to the discussion”, but is that enough to justify rate limiting? If someone was outright spamming, surely they’d be down voted, so that’s not the reason to do it. I’d say a pattern of consistent down voting is a better base for this. After that I found myself trying to “pick up” my score for a while by going to comment posts that were already highly popular to make sure my comment would be seen and upvoted enough to avoid this happening again, and that seems like something you don’t particularly want to incentivize. It just reinforces posts on the basis of them being popular, not necessarily what one honestly considers most interesting.
So for the most part I’m really happy with it—I think it’s got a great UI and a great feel. I haven’t much used the Dialogues feature (not even reading them), but they don’t interfere in any way with the rest of my experience.
One thing I think might need some tuning is the feature that limits the post rate based on the karma of your previous posts. I’ve once found myself rate-limited due to it, and the cause was simply that my last 20 comments had been in not particularly lively discussions where they ended up staying at the default 2⁄0 score. Now I suppose you could construe that as “evidently you haven’t said anything that was contributing particularly to the discussion”, but is that enough to justify rate limiting? If someone was outright spamming, surely they’d be down voted, so that’s not the reason to do it. I’d say a pattern of consistent down voting is a better base for this. After that I found myself trying to “pick up” my score for a while by going to comment posts that were already highly popular to make sure my comment would be seen and upvoted enough to avoid this happening again, and that seems like something you don’t particularly want to incentivize. It just reinforces posts on the basis of them being popular, not necessarily what one honestly considers most interesting.