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Curiously PG posting this gets 50 karma and counting, someone else posted a similar thing earlier in the week and got flagged dead. I don't want to see this topic regularly but maybe the guidelines could be made more prominent for new users?
Good idea. I should add some kind of welcome page.
That principle doesn't work online. In general you can say stuff to people in person that's insulting and abusive, and then just give a wry smile and everybody laughs. You can't do that online. The guideline has it exactly wrong. The problem is that what you say online about someone is frozen forever, and takes on more significance than either the sender or the receiver actually meant. In person, I call you an asshol…
As a reddit convert myself, I'm terrified to post here. I hear that Paul Graham himself sometimes singles out dumb commenters and publicly ridicules them. ;-) Best to keep a low profile.
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...
hate to carp on it, nobody likes hearing I told you so, but a design flaw is a design flaw.
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Wouldn't we then be saying that no comment is worth more than 10 points under any circumstances? I am not sure that is the proper behavior either. In this scenario a well thought out 3 paragraph critique would be limited to the same number of points as a two word quip.
Well the obvious next step is a logarithmic scale for comment values.
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Good idea. I should add some kind of welcome page.
How about "Don't say anything you wouldn't say to someone's face" next to the submit button for the comment box? It could be a link to the full guidelines page maybe. Even for older users it could be good to have a little reminder to not be an arsehole (I could certainly use that sort of reminder on occasion).