Kaj_Sotala comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 03 September 2012 08:24:38AM 3 points [-]

The Stack Exchange sites provide new users with an increasing amount of privileges based on their karma (example). In principle, something similar could be implemented here, with separate privileges such as (in no particular order):

  • Vote comments up
  • Vote comments down
  • Vote posts up
  • Vote posts down
  • Create Discussion posts
  • Create Main posts
  • Create meetups
Comment author: [deleted] 03 September 2012 08:36:47AM *  2 points [-]

Meetup creation doesn't seem to need a barrier. Perhaps a useful privilege that could come with enough karma would be to allow users to edit tags on articles. Separating voting on comments and main seem reasonable, but I don't quite see why separating down voting and up voting would do any good.