DataPacRat comments on Stupid Questions (10/27/2014) - Less Wrong

15 Post author: drethelin 27 October 2014 09:27PM

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Comment author: Cthulhoo 28 October 2014 09:16:58AM 4 points [-]

I remember that it used to be 100 Karma, although this was when the community was much smaller. Also, it was mostly used as a rule of thumb/heuristic for the personal accountability of one's posts (e.g. some people would withold a downvote the person posting it was new to the community).

Comment author: DataPacRat 28 October 2014 02:27:56PM 4 points [-]

I remember that it used to be

I'm suddenly reminded of a tradition on Slashdot, where someone with, say, a six-digit userID mentions how the place is going downhill, only for someone with a five-digit userID to pipe up, then someone with a three-digit userID to post anything at all...

Comment author: Cthulhoo 28 October 2014 04:29:25PM 0 points [-]

Ha, rereading my comment I see that it may sound pretentious, but this wasn't my intention. Reading your comment just triggered this random factoid stored in my mind :)