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The depressing thing is I can imagine people genuinely making the exact suggestion you made, with no humour at all. Sorry!

• Bud 15y ago
  Er, HN already does limit access via arbitrarily-chosen tests of user quality. They just chose different tests. :) I don't think it'd be a 100% bad idea to implement some sort of knowledge-based testing, wire it up to varying levels of initial access/privs on a site, and see what happens, as an experiment. User privs could then evolve once the user had actually posted or commented or rated things.
  • eru 15y ago
    What are those tests? I haven't joined HN in ages (and then, only once), so I'm not up to date on the current procedures.
    • moheeb 15y ago
      You have to come up with a username AND password!
      • pyre 15y ago
        Or remember your Facebook/Twitter/etc username/password.
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• dhimes 15y ago
  If it's any consolation, he got me last week. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846306 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846306