I found myself a little incensed at this article, rather than by it. Yup, there are limits on new users' privileges. Yes, there are users that play The Reputati

I found myself a little incensed at this article, rather than by it. Yup, there are limits on new users' privileges. Yes, there are users that play The Reputation Game. Yes, there are many questions that don't get answered to one's satisfaction. Yes, there are trolls. Yes, there are disillusioned users. Yes, yes, yes. Even so, I also find all of this to be Perfect-As-Enemy-of-Good whinging. Instead it could've been a plea full of suggestions. A Call To Action! So let's do that now, though I may come off as a prick here because I kinda think all of this whining is the real problem of the internet. > The privilege limits IMHO they're are rational and reasonable, but your specific use-case was about new folks not being able to leave comments. So how could we solve this? Perhaps new users ought to be able to, but only the author'd be able to see them. When either the Q or A author upvoted it, it'd become visible to the world? > Troll responses to your bad/incorrect/misleading answer That sounded like a bummer. You know you can flag these comments already so... punish these bad actors in the provided way and move on. > Respond to comment that says my question is a duplicate (it’s not, which I clarify to avoid “closed as duplicate”) > [...] > Another issue with this is that duplicates show up despite the crotchety moderators complaining about it. You can't have your cake and eat it too. It's casual, usually-helpful internet folk doing their (usually) altruistic best to help. Most of the time, this works great. Blog posts like this point out the exception, and are valuable, and they're very enticing clickbait. But when they offer only boo-hoo's and no ah-hah's, move on.