Emile comments on [META] Karma for last 30 days? - Less Wrong Discussion
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It wouldn't work; as far as I know the total downvotes you are allowed to give is function of your own karma; sockpuppets without karma couldn't downvote, and maintaining three sockpuppets that post enough to get karma (by upvoting each other?) sounds like a pretty non-trivial inconvenience.
The 'trivial inconvenience' described the experience for the commenter, not the experience for the stifler.
And it's not hard to get karma for sockpuppets - they can all write relatively innocuous comments and upvote each other.
Theoretically, the more sockpuppets you have, the easier it would be to give each one karma.
Then again I don't think sockpuppets are really a significant problem at the moment. Hopefully they won't grow with these changes.
So, there is a non-negligible chance of newbie become a future troll reading LW?