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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  1256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: We are no longer in the midst of an experiment.

Glad to hear you got results from the experiment that pushed your decision one way or the other. It's good to have results to work from.

I personally like the "waiting period" for new users, but feel it might be tweaked a bit. They must read X number of posts before being able to comment. Or wait X number of days before being able to post. And either of them would show as a countdown on their profile page, so they had visibility into when their account had fully "matured".

Maybe there's a second step after that, where they can comment on posts, but not create entirely new posts for a week. That gives them time to read, interact, and get a feel for things before they can post their spam ads. :-)