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by brookst 19 hours ago
Probably leads to long term site death as fewer new people have the patience for that, and older users age out/die.

Who’s going to keep coming back to post one 40-char comment every two days?

It’s a real problem. Being able to pull in reputation from other sources might help: link established GitHub or (shudder) LinkedIn accounts? Or build the long-fantasized anonymous web of trust reputation thing?