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Tell HN: Feedback – don't let new accounts post in flamebait threads
There's 2 or 3 big-tech threads on the front page right now that have devolved into flamewars. While these are normally quickly deleted, they appear to have been manually modded up (which I suppose would avoid a claim about HN censoring the articles about censoring). So that's fine. But it's tedious reading through a bunch of low-effort posts by throwaway accounts. Can we at least prevent those?
- gus_massa 6y agoIt may be a good idea. Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com . They usually reply soon. There is a problem about the details, like the minimum of days or the minimum of karma (or the minimum of days*karma) or other metric like how many pages the user has seen or how many times has upvoted something.
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoHere's my take: I don't like this Tell HN. It's too non-specific. If you want to make a point about threads, then link to the threads in question. Don't make me play Where's Waldo, asking me to hunt thru all the submissions, so I can try to figure out which threads you're upset about.
- chaganated 6y agoThey'd do better to kill posts where the comment-to-upvote ratio goes too high. The best posts tend to have relatively few comments.