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Thanks, it's interesting to learn what is a practical problem when growing a discussion website. Is it possible to deter troll behavior by using a reputation s

by acover 8y ago

Thanks, it's interesting to learn what is a practical problem when growing a discussion website. Is it possible to deter troll behavior by using a reputation system and investigating bad behavior? Reputation that takes a long time of good behavior to build but a single act of malice to destroy. It also has the statistical beauty of adding a prior probability estimate to the likelihood estimate that sorts Reddit comments.

Kialo 8y ago
Agreed. We have a "reputation system" it's the thank count next to usernames. We have not handed out any privileges based on those yet, but will probably soon take all with a certain thank count, look at their contributions and grant them some poweruser rights, e.g. commenting into all public debates and see how that goes.