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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
It's still not clear that the affected contributors are even made aware of this.
If that's the case it's not really discouraging people from participating, it's deceiving them into thinking they are treated on equal terms.
Comment by TheYearOfThe_Rat at 11/12/2019 at 13:18 UTC
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My worry isn't "deceiving" is a normal person coming/subscribing to a subreddit, to ask questions or comment and literally never have their comments or questions, answered. That just discourages participation - people will leave, and not the old users, but the new users certainly will do so.
IMGUR is an example of such policies - nobody can see your comments until you have at least 50 karma from posting images, but IMGUR is basically an image board and can "afford" it, because their contents and their OC creators are in the visual domain. Reddit's "content" is textual. If new people are discouraged from posting, there will be less and less people and it's going to die out.