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Users should be rate limited based on the average score of their last x (say 100) submissions. If their last 100 submissions got an average of 1 (no points) the
by jxcole 15y ago
Users should be rate limited based on the average score of their last x (say 100) submissions. If their last 100 submissions got an average of 1 (no points) then they should be rate limited to 3 a day. If their average score for the last 100 is above, say, 30, then it's obvious the user is providing real value to the community and their rate limit should disappear.
- Udo 15y agoMaybe if everyone was rate-limited to, say, one submission per day the /newest section would be much cleaner. Ideally, it would also cost a little bit of karma to submit links.
- bartl 15y agoI don't like that. If anything here smells like Digg's "power users", this is it: the more you can post, the more karma you gain, and up goes your ceiling.
- jxcole 15y agoThat's the point of the 100 most recent. If they are power users and they can submit 80 posts a day, each of which gets at least 20 points, then they are obviously making a contribution. If they just have high Karma though, they won't necessarily be able to have a high limit. If they keep submitting crap in the hopes that a few will be upvoted, their average will go down. Also, you could try using median rather than mean and that might produce better results.