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I think it would help if a user's first few karma points could only be obtained through upvoted comments, and not submissions. Submissions should be disallowed
by makecheck 18y ago
I think it would help if a user's first few karma points could only be obtained through upvoted comments, and not submissions. Submissions should be disallowed until you reach a certain karma value, ensuring that you've contributed meaningfully to discussions for awhile before you can add your own. (This would avoid the all-too-common 1-karma-user posts of spam or stuff from Reddit that isn't even related to us.)
I don't think invite-only is a good thing. It probably would have prevented me from ever being here.
- luckystrike 18y agoI agree with the suggestion that submissions should be disallowed until one reaches a specific karma value. It is becoming incredibly harder now to up-vote the right kind of posts from the 'new' section. A smaller sample space would be helpful in getting mostly the right content on the front page. Writing thoughtful comments (even if they are disagreements) to get the desired karma for submissions is as good as a pseudo-invite. The one tricky part would be whether to allow 'Ask HN' posts or not from new accounts that haven't reached the specific karma level yet. I think they should be allowed, as sometimes one needs to create a temp account, to get some useful feedback/suggestions for some situations where one cannot disclose the identity very obviously.
- dejb 18y agoPossibly a new user would be allowed to submit but their vote would count for nothing. Only if a established users voted for it would it stand a chance if making the front page. Some people are bound to be better article finders than commentors and their input could be valuable.