AngryParsley comments on Karma Changes - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2009 12:17AM

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Comment author: AngryParsley 22 December 2009 03:18:06AM *  1 point [-]

There are more people on the site now, so it's easier to get karma. A lot of newbies haven't read many of the sequences. If they start posting too soon, we could end up with a lot of garbage in the new posts list.

I don't know if anyone else behaved this way, but at first I commented until I had enough karma to post, then I started lurking. I've never posted anything, but it's nice to have the option. Maybe this change will entice more lurkers to comment.

Comment author: Larks 23 December 2009 12:10:39AM *  0 points [-]

I did exactly the same, though I did rough out a post on how to protect your friends from falling into traps that you knew they would be soon taught at university/school. With these changes, I'm under the cap again, which might ironically make me write the article properly.