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by irishcoffee 3980 days ago
As an aside, it could be a small indication that this community is a.) growing a bit via reddit, and b.) reaching a critical mass where maybe StackOverflow rules should be considered.

Something like, not being able to reply to the "root" of a comment tree without some paltry number of karma, like 10.

Don't get me wrong, I don't care about karma scores, but as you point out, it isn't very hard to "farm" karma if one so chooses.