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Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by llimllib on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:27PM (#165986)
yes, but sometimes the reputation is valuable. Given a poster's prior probability of intelligent comments, you have more information on which to vote.
Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by attack on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:52PM (#166006)
You also allow him to relax his quality while enjoying his automatic points. Plus group-think lock-in for free.

I can only reducing this making the overall quality here improve.