https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101267
--- Comment #3 from Dan Dascalescu <[email protected]> ---
@Heiko: let me see if understand that reasoning correctly. You said "The reason
[for denying upvoting until the user gets reputation] is basically to avoid
spammer to push their own postings."
This doesn't make sense to me. Here's why:
1. I was already able to post an answer without any reputation. A spammer can
just post a spam answer. The lack of upvoting won't help clean that spam
answer. Other mechanisms, such as flagging should be in place. Please look at
StackOverflow.
2. How much of a problem has spam been, actually? What exactly can spammers do
if they can upvote existing answers, which as shown above, shouldn't be spam?
3. The point of a Q&A site is to *avoid* questions, by creating a repository of
questions that users can find via web searching. This means that most users
will *not* need to ask new questions, so they won't get the 10 points. Most
users will find an answer on ASK.LO, and will want to upvote the answers that
worked for them. But now they can't.
4. The 1% rule[1] indicates that the vast majority of users are visitors, not
creators of content (questions or answers). We should make it possible for this
vast 99% majority to be able to vote, without having to ask some dummy
question, then hope for an upvote, just in order to get the right to vote. This
would actually incite spam.
Please reconsider this gamification mechanic.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
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