I like this. Familiarising newcomers to the community's ways as opposed to a blind downvote is a good way to welcome them.
We must remember that these sorts of posts are acceptable on other discussion forums, news aggregates and 99% of social media as a whole. Many newcomers will be used to this freedom and may feel intimidated because their first post received a -- in karma, without knowing it's won as easily as it's lost.
I, personally, comment very irregularly. I hold myself to a strict rule of only commenting when I feel I can add real value to the discussion - on a lot of subjects, experts way above my skill level do this so I do not comment.
In true hacker spirit, we could use ML to find the reason and give a message like "It's probably because x". Not sure what algorithm we'd have to use but I'm interested now.
We must remember that these sorts of posts are acceptable on other discussion forums, news aggregates and 99% of social media as a whole. Many newcomers will be used to this freedom and may feel intimidated because their first post received a -- in karma, without knowing it's won as easily as it's lost.
I, personally, comment very irregularly. I hold myself to a strict rule of only commenting when I feel I can add real value to the discussion - on a lot of subjects, experts way above my skill level do this so I do not comment.