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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 02 March 2013 07:53:05PM 1 point [-]

There could be a plugin for this. Imagine that before sending a post, you have to answer a few questions, such as: "Your certainty that this post will move the sanity waterline in a positive direction".

But we are only humans. We would learn very soon to ignore it, and just check the "right" answers automatically.

Maybe it would work better if it displayed only randomly, once in a few comments. And then the given comment could be sent to reviewers, who could inflict huge negative karma if they strongly disagree with the estimate.

Or perhaps there could be an option to click "I am sure this comment is useful and harmless" when sending a comment. A comment without this option gets +1 karma on upvote and -1 on downvote; a comment with this option gets +2 on upvote and -5 on downvote. This could make people think before posting.

Comment author: drethelin 03 March 2013 03:34:46AM 4 points [-]

I like the idea of a questionnaire that pops up randomly when making a comment at a rate of maybe 1-10 percent. possible example questions:

  • Do you think this comment is funny?
  • Do you think this comment is useful to the person you're responding to?
  • Do you think this comment is useful to anyone but the person you're responding to?
  • Do you think this comment will have positive karma? How much?
  • Would you make this comment to anyone's face?
  • etc

Displaying one or more of these at a rate that makes you think but not at a rate that would be super annoying would be fun and provide some neat databases.

On the other hand I'm sure programming it would be a bitch.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2013 02:41:26PM 0 points [-]

But we are only humans. We would learn very soon to ignore it, and just check the "right" answers automatically.

There could be something preventing you from unthinkingly click "Yes", akin to the option in LeechBlock whereby you have to copy a code of 32/64/128 random characters before being able to change the settings. (But that might backfire, by discouraging people from posting comments even when they would be unobjectionable.)

Or perhaps there could be an option to click "I am sure this comment is useful and harmless" when sending a comment. A comment without this option gets +1 karma on upvote and -1 on downvote; a comment with this option gets +2 on upvote and -5 on downvote. This could make people think before posting.

I would love that.

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