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Suggestion: A certain amount of karma is needed to submit links! It's easy enough to get karma through comments. That would probally help a lot on the signal-to

Suggestion: A certain amount of karma is needed to submit links! It's easy enough to get karma through comments. That would probally help a lot on the signal-to-noise ratio.

globalrev 18y ago
Wouldn't that stop a lot of people from getting involved here too?
- jedc 18y ago
  Not necessarily. I'm quite a newbie here, but have enjoyed the discussion already. Then again, I do specifically try to ignore your typical trolls/spammers.
- Prrometheus 18y ago
  Is a large number of people involved a good thing?
  - benjamincanfly 18y ago
    I'm a little surprised that PG hasn't already capped the number of users. I think it would be great if user registration happened in seasons. I.e. every three months, there's a 48-hour period during which new people can sign up. The purpose of this would be to allow the site to retain a unique personality. If you constantly add new people, it's hard to know who's who and what we're doing here. Treat it more like a large and semi-exclusive collective, and give it a chance to center itself for a while before expanding again.
    - Prrometheus 18y ago
      I like that idea. It would preserve the egalitarian internet spirit by allowing anyone to join, but prevent waves of new people from joining every time Hacker News gets publicized.
alex_c 18y ago
I don't think low-karma users are the reason for a "bad" signal-to-noise ratio in submissions. I think that with more users, there is simply less consensus on what constitutes signal and what constitutes noise. A karma threshold for submitting wouldn't help with this.
- benjamincanfly 18y ago
  So the real questions are: how do you get a bunch of anonymous people who don't know each other in real life to decide on the purpose of an already-existing website, and once you've done that, how do you keep the influx of new users in line with the site's stated purpose?

Suggestion: A certain amount of karma is needed to submit links! It's easy enough to get karma through comments. That would probally help a lot on the signal-to-noise ratio.

globalrev 18y ago

Wouldn't that stop a lot of people from getting involved here too?

jedc 18y ago
Not necessarily. I'm quite a newbie here, but have enjoyed the discussion already. Then again, I do specifically try to ignore your typical trolls/spammers.
Prrometheus 18y ago
Is a large number of people involved a good thing?
- benjamincanfly 18y ago
  I'm a little surprised that PG hasn't already capped the number of users. I think it would be great if user registration happened in seasons. I.e. every three months, there's a 48-hour period during which new people can sign up. The purpose of this would be to allow the site to retain a unique personality. If you constantly add new people, it's hard to know who's who and what we're doing here. Treat it more like a large and semi-exclusive collective, and give it a chance to center itself for a while before expanding again.
  - Prrometheus 18y ago
    I like that idea. It would preserve the egalitarian internet spirit by allowing anyone to join, but prevent waves of new people from joining every time Hacker News gets publicized.

alex_c 18y ago

I don't think low-karma users are the reason for a "bad" signal-to-noise ratio in submissions. I think that with more users, there is simply less consensus on what constitutes signal and what constitutes noise. A karma threshold for submitting wouldn't help with this.

benjamincanfly 18y ago
So the real questions are: how do you get a bunch of anonymous people who don't know each other in real life to decide on the purpose of an already-existing website, and once you've done that, how do you keep the influx of new users in line with the site's stated purpose?