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This might cause duplicate comments, which were previously not written, because commenters were able to read comments posted before them.
I like it when social problems can relate to computer science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use
1. Limits speed of information distribution
2. Can be used to filter out specific information
3. Promotes centralised points of view -> Fewer people decide what is information is valuable
1. May lead to better quality of information
3 facts vs 1 possibility
Some thoughts: 1) It would be fun to try this on only a subset of articles posted, so we could get real A/B testing on how well it works. The same issues get posted under multiple submissions, so we could see if the quantity and quality of comments is improved by pending, independent of the topics. 2) "showpending" to allow 3) These's now a huge incentive to farm a few 1001 karma point alt accounts. You can do that w…
I worry about timezones, what percentage of users with 1000+ karma are in low-population timezones?
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How is it much worse? For a comment to be censored, literally every user with over 1000 karma must refuse to endorse the comment. That doesn't sound like centralized thought control to me...
At least few 1000+karma users must endorse the comment for it to become visible.
This seems quite drastic to me. Personally I don't have a lot of Karma (and I don't really care to) but every known and again I post a comment and usually I hope it provides a good contribution. Like this the system is putting a lot of weight on the users with more Karma... and I am guessing there are "many" more users with less than 1000 compared to those with more? Some people may never have a chance to state their…
It's not that hard to get to 1000+ slowly. All you have to do is hang around for years and make the occasional decent comment. If anything this is biased towards old timers.
Otherwise, new users are unable to judge for themselves whether they agree with how the community endorses comments*.
Without such options any community eventually becomes a self-perputating hivemind.
For users with over 1k karma, do their comments go through the pending phase too?