This was easy to do.
More spam today. Prohibiting posting by users with Karma<1 can't be that difficult to implement - we even have the 20 Karma cutoff on the main site...
"X can't be that difficult to implement": something one probably shouldn't say about an open source project unless one is about to give it a go themselves.
There's are at least two opportunities to suffer motivation drain in your comment :)
Spam (curiously enough, always for jewelry) accounts for maybe two-thirds of what comes through the LW Discussion area's RSS feed these days. So although the moderators have been doing a great job of quickly removing it from the site itself, it remains a substantial annoyance for those of us who keep track of LW through a feed.
I think it's time to revisit the possibility of making it harder for people to post in the discussion area. Clearly it would suffice to limit posting privileges to those who have a positive karma balance. If that seems too draconian, as it did to some people in the previous thread, it would probably be enough to limit posting privileges to those who have ever received a single upvote on any comment they have ever posted.
Would any administrator care to undertake this? If so, many thanks.
(My apologies if an unfinished version of this post briefly appeared on the site some hours ago.)