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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3588 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk about this invite thing.

Blows scalability to shit. There's currently zero moderation, but your solution creates a chaperone situation where somebody gets blessed with the task of reading (and approving) every. Single. Newb comment. Which, during the last tidder invasion, would have been a thousand comments a day whining about vote counts.

I wouldn't wish that on anyone, and above a certain traffic level it just becomes mk's 24-hour mute through inertia.