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Tell me which of these option could favor the demographic of yesteryear? I've thought about this recently, and here's the problem: By the time you see the site
by euroclydon 16y ago
Tell me which of these option could favor the demographic of yesteryear? I've thought about this recently, and here's the problem: By the time you see the site degrading, in order for you to have noticed it's degradation, there has to be enough users with points, voting stuff up you don't think has high quality, and being voted up for poor quality remarks, that any of the above suggestions will just reinforce their preferences.
500 points isn't enough. It's just a poor proxy for moderator power, where what you really want is a couple dozen moderators, who think close enough to you, and wield most of the voting power.
- tptacek 16y ago"500" is deliberately tuned not to select for the veterans who think like me; rather, it keeps people who are brand new from doing things that bend the site. And I agree with your general point. Some of those feature ideas do boil down to giving veterans more power on the site, and I'm not a huge fan of that idea. But other ideas on the list aren't about biasing moderation; instead, they're about fixing some of the site features that lead to pathological comment threads.