I like the idea, however, there are many accounts on here that have a significant amount of karma gained through auto-posting already, and that greatly impacts

I like the idea, however, there are many accounts on here that have a significant amount of karma gained through auto-posting already, and that greatly impacts the effectiveness of such a proposal. For the heavy auto-posters, let's say that out of 20 auto-posts, only 1 gets any traction. I would imagine that they would happily still take the hit of 20 points, in order to gain 50 or more points from the one good post. On the flip side, people with low karma would become increasingly timid to take any risks, and may shy away from posting altogether. I feel in the long run it would result in the karma-rich getting richer. An alternative proposal could be more focused on penalising excessive karma farming. E.g. require a gap of at least 20 mins since last post, or subtract 50 points for every 0 point/0 comment story submitted by a user, but calculate this at the end of the month.