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I agree, but it's important that what qualifies as investment matters. Perhaps a function of comments, votes, submissions and time the account has been around.
by iuguy 16y ago
I agree, but it's important that what qualifies as investment matters. Perhaps a function of comments, votes, submissions and time the account has been around.
As an aside, how would we distinguish between RMS posts and regular posts? Would the spammers simply revert to normal posts? I think if this is the case then perhaps we should reconsider the goal.
If the goal is to stop spam masquerading as RMS, then it seems to me that accounts should require more longevity or community contribution to post an RMS post than a regular post. As long as we define etiquette for posting an RMS post, then it should be feasible to use a combination of following that etiquette, and flagging posts that don't follow said etiquette.
If the issue is stopping spam, then perhaps that's separate to RMS posts and should be considered as a wider whole.
- tptacek 16y agoYou have almost 1000 karma. Do you have a startup you want to ask about? Try posting it; he's not going to kill it. Otherwise: what's the problem?
- iuguy 16y agoI don't care about my karma a great deal (although I've written about a personal karma-related goal before for me to gauge how engaged I am in this community, it's a guide for me rather than a score per se). I care about other people's startups, but not spam.
- vessenes 16y agoI'm reminded of the first time I saw PG speak, it was on bayespam at MIT -- he noted that if SPAM can come up with interesting and engaging email, he'll happily read it. I imagine that as soon as someone is posting interesting content, RMS or not, PG and others won't think of them as 'spammers' anymore, rather contributors.
- mvalle 16y agoIf SPAM is interesting and engaging, is is SPAM?
- boredguy8 16y ago"Mission fucking accomplished" http://xkcd.com/810/ http://xkcd.com/810/
- iuguy 16y agoYou sir, win this thread.
- dbingham 16y agoMine was pretty interesting to the 10 people who's commented and the 23 who'd voted it up. It was still closed.