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Re:New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. by michaelneale on Saturday January 31, 2009 @02:52AM (#459351)
A suggestion:

Any chance that news stories could be throttled or more heavily edited/moderated just after a spike in new users? Just a thought, it could help to filter out those who are interested versus those just looking for another forum to do their usual thing on.

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Re:New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. by pg on Saturday January 31, 2009 @03:58AM (#459404)
The problem is more in the comments. The character of the submissions hasn't changed much.

The best way to deal with nasty comments by new users may be just to ask them to stop. Several times lately I've noticed established users doing that, e.g.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457319

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Re:New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. by michaelneale on Saturday January 31, 2009 @11:34PM (#460522)
Well things seem to be going well. Dodged a bullet this time !

I am very interested to see how things maintained - increasing popularity is inevitable...

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Re:New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. by someperson on Saturday January 31, 2009 @03:49AM (#459397)
Apparently, they already are: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435705
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