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A very interesting point of view, what do you think can be done to counter this outcome.

• jfktrey 10y ago
  What if you made community contribution a limited resource? Continuing the reddit example. You could limit contribution by three routes: 1) Limiting the number of posts. For example, 3 posts per week, max. 2) Limiting the visibility of posts. The more you post, the less an upvote counts. Effective Upvote Value = 1 / (posts this week) 3) Limiting the visibility of posts based on post quality. The more you post in a week and the lower your per-post average karma, the less an upvote counts. Effective Upvote Value = (per-post average karma) / (posts this week) Just a thought.
  • ComputerGuru 10y ago
    3) Limiting the visibility of posts based on post quality. The more you post in a week and the lower your per-post average karma, the less an upvote counts. Effective Upvote Value = (per-post average karma) / (posts this week) You probably weren't around for it, but HN experimented with something like this where each commenter's running average point tally for the last X posts or Y time was visible on their profile and indirectly visible on each of their comments. Their name (comment?) would appear in a different (darker?) shade the higher their running average. I personally liked it, but it was rolled back after a couple of months. I think people became afraid to make replies that wouldn't accumulate up votes, and I know I wouldn't reply to threads if someone commented a day later because "it wasn't worth it."
• rhizome 10y ago
  HN has "you're posting too fast!" per-user rate limiting.