An AFF rule that I don't quite understand...
I like everything about this site, except one rule, but maybe it's only me.
If someone sees the point of this rule, could you explain it to me, please? Thank you!
This is the rule from the AFF FAQ, I was talking about, and the explanation of it:
Q: Why do I need to have at least 10 karma points to vote on a story?
A: It's one way of many to curb vote manipulation and reduce the incidences of multiple shell accounts all trying to raise votes for a story.
And this is my own point of view:
I feel like with this rule, the authors are punished somehow, instead of being rewarded.
Why rewarded? Because they do a good job for AFF, they actually bring new users for the site, with their work. And for that, the authors are deprived from those newbies' well deserved votes.
Probably a big number from these new users wouldn't be here if not for the authors' stories, whom about they learned somewhere and sometimes...just sayin'
PS: How many shell accounts could you create anyway, for this issue to be such a big threat?
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