my suggestion: implement both Proposal 1 and Proposal 2. Actually, they could be combined into a single proposal. Have an option to turn “karma coward” mode on or off for each individual post, and have an option in your user settings that says whether karma coward option is on or off by default. Make it default to on. No need to automate this with a time limit.
The grace period is supposed to apply to comments, not posts (users can’t post without karma, and users who registered less than two weeks ago probably shouldn’t be posting anyway), while “karma coward” is supposed to apply to posts and not comments.
And for proposal 2 I still recommend having an option to turn off the grace period manually.
Though having a karma-coward option for posts might end up reducing the average quality of the LW posts… if we implement this mode, then maybe there should be an option for readers to filter out non-promoted, karma-coward-mode posts.
oh, and will it still be possible for comments to be upvoted, while the user’s grace period is active?
my suggestion: implement both Proposal 1 and Proposal 2. Actually, they could be combined into a single proposal. Have an option to turn “karma coward” mode on or off for each individual post, and have an option in your user settings that says whether karma coward option is on or off by default. Make it default to on. No need to automate this with a time limit.
The grace period is supposed to apply to comments, not posts (users can’t post without karma, and users who registered less than two weeks ago probably shouldn’t be posting anyway), while “karma coward” is supposed to apply to posts and not comments.
Ok, makes sense.
We can still implement both proposals, right?
And for proposal 2 I still recommend having an option to turn off the grace period manually.
Though having a karma-coward option for posts might end up reducing the average quality of the LW posts… if we implement this mode, then maybe there should be an option for readers to filter out non-promoted, karma-coward-mode posts.
oh, and will it still be possible for comments to be upvoted, while the user’s grace period is active?