Small addition: LW 1.0 made it so you had to have 10 karma before making a top-level post (maybe just on Main? I don’t remember but probably you do). I think this probably matters a lot less now that new posts automatically have to be approved, and mods have to manually promote things to frontpage. But I don’t know, theoretically you could gate fraught discussions like the recent ones to users above a certain karma threshold? Some of the lowest-quality comments on those posts wouldn’t have happened in that case.
Small addition: LW 1.0 made it so you had to have 10 karma before making a top-level post (maybe just on Main? I don’t remember but probably you do). I think this probably matters a lot less now that new posts automatically have to be approved, and mods have to manually promote things to frontpage. But I don’t know, theoretically you could gate fraught discussions like the recent ones to users above a certain karma threshold? Some of the lowest-quality comments on those posts wouldn’t have happened in that case.