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> if you require a sign-up, nobody is going to bother. Nobody is going to bother to hit-and-run, but people who read the same site over and over again and find
by lotharbot 15y ago
> if you require a sign-up, nobody is going to bother.
Nobody is going to bother to hit-and-run, but people who read the same site over and over again and find themselves wanting to respond regularly will bother. I think that is a very good thing. If people are using persistent usernames, you also increase user-to-user connections.
Combine that with even rudimentary voting and downvote-based visibility and you've got, if not a 90% solution, at least a 75% solution.
- zecho 15y agoPeople will absolutely bother to hit and run. Requiring registration makes moderation easier and keeps spam out a bit better. Also, with voting systems, you run the risk of people using them as a bludgeon against one another. Sites like HN and others mostly work because the group of people commenting are very similar to one another. There's not a whole lot of reason to troll someone you mostly agree with.