The recent implementation of a -5 karma penalty for replying to comments that are at -3 or below has clearly met with some disagreement and controversy.
How about we wait a couple weeks to try the new feature; instead of jumping up in outrage and proposing even more complicated schemes?
I'd be in favor of an official "no complaining about feature X for the first two weeks" rule, after which a post could be created for discussion. Like that the discussion could be about what actually happened, and not about what people imagine might happen.
It's not as if two weeks of using an experimental feature was some unbearable burden.
I'm much more comfortable with this sort of intervention as a "We think this will improve the forums, let's test this for a month or two" rather than "Lesswrong sucks but this will fix it guys, trust us"
The recent implementation of a -5 karma penalty for replying to comments that are at -3 or below has clearly met with some disagreement and controversy. See http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/eb9/meta_karma_for_last_30_days/7aon . However, at the same time, it seems that Eliezer's observation that trolling and related problems have over time gotten worse here may be correct. It may be that this an inevitable consequence of growth, but it may be that it can be handled or reduced with some solution or set of solutions. I'm starting this discussion thread for people to propose possible solutions. To minimize anchoring bias and related problems, I'm not going to include my ideas in this header but in a comment below. People should think about the problem before reading proposed solutions (again to minimize anchoring issues).