I just noticed karma thresholds connect up to the leveling up Jacques Mattheij is talking about (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241945 http://news.ycombin

I just noticed karma thresholds connect up to the leveling up Jacques Mattheij is talking about (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241945 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241945 on the front page, section "Black sun"). You can segment people in a 'community' either with outsiders looking in (privileged users and a peanut gallery) or with insiders looking out (privileged users getting a filtered view). Karma thresholds do the former, and feedreaders/twitter/facebook kinda-sorta do the latter.