shminux comments on A belief propagation graph - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 10 May 2012 05:06:07AM *  1 point [-]

Would be nice if the ability to post to Main was restricted to the forum admins/editors and the Discussion articles upvoted 20-30 would automatically move to Main.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 May 2012 05:19:26AM 7 points [-]

Discussion articles upvoted 20-30 would automatically move to Main.

Many 20+ Discussion posts don't belong in Main, and also giving admins control of what gets promoted from Discussion to Main requires a lot of both power and oversight on the part of the admins. Giving people the option to move their articles from Discussion to Main themselves, after 20 karma, could work, but would make the posting process more complicated for newer people or older people who didn't get the memo.

Comment author: shminux 10 May 2012 05:55:00AM 2 points [-]

Many 20+ Discussion posts don't belong in Main

Very few posts get +20, only a rare one gets +30, so demoting an occasional outlier would not be a very onerous task. That said, simply restricting the ability to post to Main will stop those with more ego than common sense.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 May 2012 02:50:31AM 3 points [-]

Well, there is a karma threshold.