But how are "rate my startup" posts different from any other posts?
I mean, if you invent special treatment for RMS-posts then why wouldn't the spammers simply go back to submitting their stuff without that prefix?
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#12So this is structured procrastination in action? http://lesswrong.com/lw/1fe/antiakrasia_technique_structured... :)
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#13Is this a request for input? I personally haven't come across any "rate my start-up" posts I'd considered spammy, but maybe that's because the measures that are currently being taking have been effective (marking as dead, lack of upvotes for spammy posts). Mostly I've only seen that kind of spam in comments. As for RMS posts in general, I really enjoy seeing what other people have done. So I would be opposed to an ou…
I suspect it's at least partly a heads-up in case a reasonable story was mistakenly killed.
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#14I'm new to HN and I wouldn't post my startup link, as I've yet to contribute enough to the community to earn the time other members would need to review my startup. That being said, I do believe that a karma threshold for RMS posts would be a valuable asset to HN.
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#15I'd rather see a fairly low karma and a few weeks or months account age thresholds, but then I'm biased, being mostly a lurker here.
Spammers would just create accounts months in advance, and then use them when they mature. They're not above that sort of thing for high-traffic sites like this.
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#16What constitutes an established account? I rarely comment on posts but have had an account for 2.5+ years and regularly upvote posts and comments. Is my account "established"?
I have no first hand knowledge, but I would be surprised if a 2.5 year old account with 250 of karma (like you do) is not considered established enough for this purpose.
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#17i think this XKCD points out the issue rather well. http://xkcd.com/810/
Is there any kind of captcha on the submission for RMS? If not perhaps a direct link to the other RMS's and a requirement to post there.
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#18I think it's better to put "rate" or "RMS" in the header/menu to distinguish from others.
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#19how about you just disallow all frontpage submissions until a certain karma level? make people comment before they're allowed to submit links or text content, since those are the easiest to game.
comments are easier for the community to moderate and its easier to pick out spammier ones, since they're clearly off topic or include random inappropriate links.
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#20What constitutes an established account? I rarely comment on posts but have had an account for 2.5+ years and regularly upvote posts and comments. Is my account "established"?
I'm sure number of votes and length of membership could be incorporated into some sort of algorithm to determine that?