> Remove the ability to vote, comment, and perhaps read from all users below 5,000 karma.
This is hardly a good example to all the aspiring startup folks on how to treat your users.
Perhaps the old guard/high karma users keep posting here in part because they know they have a large audience. What makes you think they would stick around if the site were walled off?
Edit: Removed the accusation of trolling, apologies for that.
If I were trolling, would I expound upon my suggestion as I did? If you stopped reading at that quotation, you're right: I'd be unsure if I were trolling as well.
This is about what the community wants and needs. pg and the other long-term users want the community to stay a certain way, hence this item itself; closing off that community to only those that participated in the development thereof will allow the community to remain where it is desired.
> Perhaps the old guard/high karma users keep posting here in part because they know they have a large audience. What makes you think they would stick around if the site were walled off?
The same thing that made them stick around when the site did not have a large audience.
This is hardly a good example to all the aspiring startup folks on how to treat your users.
Perhaps the old guard/high karma users keep posting here in part because they know they have a large audience. What makes you think they would stick around if the site were walled off?
Edit: Removed the accusation of trolling, apologies for that.