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mutterc comments on Meta: A 5 karma requirement to post in discussion - Less Wrong Discussion

46 Post author: Jack 20 January 2011 06:22AM

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Comment author: mutterc 20 January 2011 04:56:24PM 1 point [-]

Captcha posts from new accounts for X amount of time, then? (Or X amount of time starting with their first post). Allow mods to short-circuit the time for posters deemed sufficiently human.

Crowdsource idea: Make "verified human" a separate flag in accounts. Designate a trusted circle as verified human. Allow any verified human to verify others as human. Posters of unknown species have posts start at -1 or -5. (I guess this is a degenerate case of /. meta-mod).

Comment author: Jack 20 January 2011 05:03:32PM 1 point [-]

Those solutions would require a bunch of new code. Much easier to withhold posting powers from users with under 5 karma.