Yeah, that seems reasonable to add to the feature-list. I feel that in general we want to have a better user-settings panel that allows you to change a variety of stuff, but I haven’t converged on a good implementation of it yet. I don’t like the current settings page (and this will definitely become much more necessary as we fix and improve our notification system).
One question: what is the intended number of “people who have been posting a couple weeks” that −5 karma is meant to be approximate? (I can imagine a case for “1 or 2″, just wanted to check if that was your intent, since −5 means a different thing than it used to)
So this probably actually isn’t true any more because of the login thing, so upon reflection I don’t endorse the claim. But there’s a person who was creating numerous fake accounts, all posting that exact message over and over again, which was (among other things) showing up on the Recent Comments thread.
My first thought had been “it should take more than one downvote to make a comment disappear” (and many people have Karma strength of 5), so this new policy was basically a one-hit KO. My thought after seeing how many copies of this one obvious-intended-to-offensive-for-its-own-sake thought was “okay, nvm, we at least temporarily need it to be possible to one-hit-KO these things until we get a better solution.”
But, hopefully, the other changes introduced in this patch probably mostly solve that problem.
I mostly just eyeballed what karma levels bad comments and spam comments usually ended up at, and −5 seemed like a reasonable threshold. Having it be a bit lower seems fine, having it be higher seems bad, since it means a single person with vote-weight 4 can hide your content, which seems bad.
Yeah, that seems reasonable to add to the feature-list. I feel that in general we want to have a better user-settings panel that allows you to change a variety of stuff, but I haven’t converged on a good implementation of it yet. I don’t like the current settings page (and this will definitely become much more necessary as we fix and improve our notification system).
One question: what is the intended number of “people who have been posting a couple weeks” that −5 karma is meant to be approximate? (I can imagine a case for “1 or 2″, just wanted to check if that was your intent, since −5 means a different thing than it used to)
Ah, I just figured out why the threshold was set to −5, and it is indeed the correct threshold until we solve some moderately hard problems. :P :(
(Actually, given the circumstances I’d set it slightly lower)
Sorry, could you explain, for those of us who haven’t figured it out? Why is –5 the correct threshold…?
Edit: I followed the link, but I don’t feel enlightened :(
So this probably actually isn’t true any more because of the login thing, so upon reflection I don’t endorse the claim. But there’s a person who was creating numerous fake accounts, all posting that exact message over and over again, which was (among other things) showing up on the Recent Comments thread.
My first thought had been “it should take more than one downvote to make a comment disappear” (and many people have Karma strength of 5), so this new policy was basically a one-hit KO. My thought after seeing how many copies of this one obvious-intended-to-offensive-for-its-own-sake thought was “okay, nvm, we at least temporarily need it to be possible to one-hit-KO these things until we get a better solution.”
But, hopefully, the other changes introduced in this patch probably mostly solve that problem.
I mostly just eyeballed what karma levels bad comments and spam comments usually ended up at, and −5 seemed like a reasonable threshold. Having it be a bit lower seems fine, having it be higher seems bad, since it means a single person with vote-weight 4 can hide your content, which seems bad.