Timeline for Pausing the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow: reflecting on the feedback and rethinking the approach
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| Apr 18, 2024 at 14:34 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | One compromise would be to allow 1-rep users to post probationary comments. These would graduate to normal comments if upvoted X times (maybe 3), but while on probation they could be nuked by a 10k user or a user holding a silver badge in any question tag. This reduces the desirability of comments by new accounts as a spam tool because the number of users reached by a comment is greatly reduced. Combined with IP-based rate limiting, it should keep the spam out. | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 13:32 | comment | added | Dharman Mod | The comments that are posted as answers would also be unsuitable as comments most of the time. | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 11:39 | comment | added | Elikill58 | @starball I understand, I didn't forget this type of comment. It's a good point that should be known when checking what you want to test and check abuse system. It also have to result in a diff between item not queued as NNA and between item queued as NLN that would never exist without this experiment | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 8:25 | history | edited | starballMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2024 at 8:22 | comment | added | starball Mod | I sympathize for new users that want to ask clarifying questions on question posts that lack detail, but I do not support un-privileging comments- at least- not without making users go through a training module that tests comprehension of /help/privileges/comment and makes them go through an audit queue of flagging comments as "no longer needed", and not without heavy rate-limiting. commenting is a privilege to prevent spam. and, as someone who flags a lot of comments as NLN, let me tell you- way too many people do not know when they should not comment. | |
| Apr 9, 2024 at 7:59 | history | answered | Elikill58 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |