And: Did anyone take a karma hit for this to happen? Or does it turn out that we’re just incentivizing being quick on the trigger—so whoever’s camping out on the site and can get to a comment before its score plummets gets to talk about it and no one else can without accepting the ding?
I paid 5 karma for making this comment. But if everyone in the subthread had to pay 5 karma, or if people below 1000 karma couldn’t participate at all, then this thread would be much smaller. Comments of minor significance, like this one and others, would probably not exist. This ceteris paribus I would see as a loss.
And: Did anyone take a karma hit for this to happen? Or does it turn out that we’re just incentivizing being quick on the trigger—so whoever’s camping out on the site and can get to a comment before its score plummets gets to talk about it and no one else can without accepting the ding?
I paid 5 karma for making this comment. But if everyone in the subthread had to pay 5 karma, or if people below 1000 karma couldn’t participate at all, then this thread would be much smaller. Comments of minor significance, like this one and others, would probably not exist. This ceteris paribus I would see as a loss.
I have taken at least 3 karma hits to talk about this.
Or worse, if someone wants to reply to a comment at −3, they will first upvote it to −2 just to avoid the penalty.
Well, they can undo the up-vote afterwards.