Re:A Proposal To Improve Hacker News
by ryaf on Friday August 17, 2012 @07:56PM
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Because newer members not familiar with the guidelines typically post the more inflammatory comments that we have seen as of late.
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Then this will reduce the amount of impact they have on the community as a whole. They will be doing us a favor by starting out ruining their karma.
Also, to state the obvious, every member here was a new member at one time and I'm not ready to say that is "typical" behavior. It's just very memorable behavior.
The whole reason why I submitted this was because PG said it wasn't the comments that cause issues but that bad comments were getting upvoted too much.