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> Allowing sub-accounts makes it easy to post vile content while avoiding the karma cost/bans which undermines the effect of the moderation mechanisms at work h
by fsflover 10mo ago
> Allowing sub-accounts makes it easy to post vile content while avoiding the karma cost/bans which undermines the effect of the moderation mechanisms at work here.
Unless the karma from sub-accounts affects the main karma.
- krapp 10mo agoA big part of the moderation mechanism is social pressure and shame. Karma is useless if it doesn't affect people and drive their behavior to conform to community standards. To that end accounts need a public history and a reputation to risk.
- fsflover 10mo ago> A big part of the moderation mechanism is social pressure and shame. On HN, it works without personalities. Here, posts are judged, not people. Names are greyed out by design.
- krapp 10mo agoAccounts and account histories are abstractions of personalities. Karma gets applied to accounts. The score of a thread is the delta of the karma of the accounts that participated in that thread. Names are greyed out like everything else besides comment text to be minimally distracting. If pg wanted post content to be entirely divorced from the person writing it he could have designed the forum that way, but all of these features are designed as operant conditioning for the person behind the name.
- fsflover 10mo agoI don't expect that everyone checks everyone else's profiles before commenting. I certainly don't. Karma should be more helpful for the mods than users.