I'm not yet sure how to feel about this, but I have one question that remains unanswered: Will this apply to submissions (possibly in the future) as well?
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#12"Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this YC cycle"
To be clear, you mean you are going to stop maintaining the codebase of HN, not stop actively participating in the community, right?
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#13I wonder if this will this lead to more karma whoring?
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#14I think this change makes the mistake that people with lots of karma are good contributors.
I think it should be based on weighted karma/comment in addition to total karma. Imagine two users - one with 1500 karma & 1.1 karma/comment versus one with 600 karma & 10 karma/comment, which one would you trust to be able to judge what is a good comment and what isn't?
The total karma weight is to give at least some favor to frequent users, but not too much.
In addition, if someone replies to your comment, you should be able to at least see their comment regardless of your karma or whether it's been greenlit.
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#15I worry about timezones, what percentage of users with 1000+ karma are in low-population timezones?
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#16Do we know what fraction of active users has over 1000 karma? As someone with forty-two karma currently who only comments rarely, it's a bit scary to know my comments will face moderation to be posted, although it will surely increase the substance/message ratio, which has seemed to be decreasing some. It's not so much that I care about the karma, as I'd post more if I did, but more that if someone asks a question th…
This is especially troublesome to me with regards to posts that quickly drop off the first page. Will there be enough page views by users with karma > 1000 on posts like that to get any comments approved?
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#17> Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another. As currently stated, if a comment's never endorsed out of pending, the commenter will never be able to post again?
This sounds like a feature, not a bug. :-)
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#18Perhaps the strongest value of this will be to slow down the threads that involve a dozen replies from someone in a short period of time. Rarely are those comments substantial enough to be meaningful, often they're just someone reacting in a reflexively emotional way to a discussion.
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#19Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another. We're hoping that good comments will get endorsed so quickly that there won't be a noticeable delay.
Is there some timeout? If not, commenting on a several-day-old thread will guarantee that you can never post another comment, since once threads drop off the front page it's not likely that many 1000+ karma users will even see those comments, never mind endorse them.
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#20> Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another. As currently stated, if a comment's never endorsed out of pending, the commenter will never be able to post again?
With the current settings, a comment has a day to make it out of pending. If you delete a pending comment, it's no longer pending.