I think our tribe is small enough, and blatant mistakes made by commenters are rare enough, for senior members to be able to recognize the new members simply by memory, checking the commenting history on the user pages when in doubt.
and blatant mistakes made by commenters are rare enough
By ‘rare enough’ do you mean “only about 1 in 3 comments” or is my standard of “blatant mistake” stricter than yours? (I was under the impression that you were actually more fussy than I since you mentioned being wary of hitting your downvote cap despite being in the same karma ballpark as I.)
It’s not the senior members that I’d be worried about… but, say, myself. I have already made one mis-application so far—where I thought somebody was making a rookie mistake, but they actually had been around for a while and he was very upset at my correction.
I think we don’t have too much problem at either end of the scale, this sort of solution would help the mob in the middle.
I think our tribe is small enough, and blatant mistakes made by commenters are rare enough, for senior members to be able to recognize the new members simply by memory, checking the commenting history on the user pages when in doubt.
But if the tribe expands?
We worry about any problems that brings when they happen. (Premature optimization is usually a bad idea.)
By ‘rare enough’ do you mean “only about 1 in 3 comments” or is my standard of “blatant mistake” stricter than yours? (I was under the impression that you were actually more fussy than I since you mentioned being wary of hitting your downvote cap despite being in the same karma ballpark as I.)
The problem with Nesov_2009 is that I’m prohibited from downvoting him by the site rules.
Hey! How did I end up here? Must have been a bump somewhere in the recent comments.
It’s not the senior members that I’d be worried about… but, say, myself. I have already made one mis-application so far—where I thought somebody was making a rookie mistake, but they actually had been around for a while and he was very upset at my correction.
I think we don’t have too much problem at either end of the scale, this sort of solution would help the mob in the middle.
Getting upset at being corrected sounds like a rookie mistake to me.