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I think this would just breed resentment, or at worst Lord Of The Flies/Robbers Cave style anarchy. [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Realisti

• derefr 16y ago
  When you have two groups that have no reason to not be the same group, the fact that they're separated breeds resentment. When you tell them that there's a criteria they were ranked upon to put them into these groups (in this case, age + karma), they understand. For example, there's no big rivalry between grad students and undergrads; one graduated to become the other.
  • JonnieCache 16y ago
    >For example, there's no big rivalry between grad students and undergrads; one graduated to become the other. All undergraduates know that they will soon be at least graduates, if not later postgrads. The transition is inevitable. Any kind of stratified internet community would have to have the eventual prospect of transfer from one strata to the other, as an inevitable consequence of good/bad participation. As soon as it becomes set in stone, or the transfer becomes a deliberate choice rather than an inevitable consequence of behaviour, I think people will forget about the criteria that originally divided them and slowly regress to hatred of the other.