Quick fix deployed. I did some analysis of user’s down vote count and karma. This change allows everyone to down vote that doesn’t have a massively skewed down vote to karma ratio (Like 21 to 2 or 548 to 137). Obviously this still leaves thomblake roughly 500 short.
wmoore
Karma: 209
It was mistakenly assumed that most people’s down vote count would not be approaching their karma, particularly for high karma users. I’ll do some more research and discuss it with Eliezer.
The anchor was removed when the article content was removed from comment permalinks as the comment should be visible on an average sized screen without jumping down. The content above the comment is also relevant to the permalink now more so than before so this was another reason why it was removed.
Thinking about this more I decided to make a start on an FAQ/user guide on the wiki.
Feel free to add anything that you feel is useful.
There is lots of content that is managed with styles to allow the dynamic aspects of the site. CSS is a required browser feature of the site.
What are you seeing? Why would you need to exceed Eliezer’s karma? The limit on down votes is based on your karma, so you should be able to cast more than 500 down votes at the moment.
Javascript is a required browser feature of the site. Its needed for most interaction (as opposed to just clicking around and reading) and to load the side bar.
An FAQ/user guide for the site is needed. In its absence the Reddit help is mostly applicable.
You are notified when you reach the limit by a message stating how many down votes you’ve made and what your current karma is. Until then I imagine you should not let this limit influence you:
Note: It is possible to see this message and the down vote count be greater than the karma due its dynamic nature.
We’ve deployed a fix for the Top Contributors that should see all 10 users listed. Although it may not be immediately visible due to client and server side caching. You may need to give it up to an hour before it shows up.
Up votes aren’t capped but your point about lurkers is interesting. The primary motivation for the change is to stop it being easy to just register an account then down vote everything you can find.
You have banned comments.
We’ve just deployed another related change: Now you can only cast as many down votes as your karma value.
I would still like to see a list of recent edits and/or active pages in the Less Wrong blog sidebar, and a list of recent blog posts and recent comments in the Wiki sidebar.
If the recent edits were available as a feed (which they are after a quick look at MediaWiki) then this is very easy to implement. In fact it would be entirely Javascript. This is exactly how the “New on Overcoming Bias” section in the side bar works.
Ahh that’s why there are people missing. When the site first went live and before it was announced someone found it, created an account with a questionable username and posted an article of little relevance. A hasty fix was put in place to exclude anyone from the Top Contributors list that had a banned article. Now that the community is much bigger this fix can probably be reversed, which would see the missing people re-appear.
We’ll keep an eye on this. We won’t be chasing fixes for developer releases but if the problem persists it will be fixed.
The inbox is a feature that came for free with the Reddit codebase but it was “lost” when the site was restyled. You will notice that the formatting of inbox page is totally messed up, this is also because it wasn’t included in redesign. Notification of replies is on the list of things to implement but there’s some higher priority work going on at the moment. Since it is a small change and many people seem to be requesting it I hope that we will get to it soon.
Unfortunately article submission requires Firefox 1.5 or newer. I was able to reproduce the problem you described in 1.0.7. However I was able to successfully submit an article using 1.5.0.7. This is due to the javascript based WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE being required, which would explain why Lynx didn’t work either.
I have raised an issue to either make it work or make the behaviour more friendly.
Due to some users being unexpectedly limited from down voting by the prior change. The threshold is now four times your karma.