Any time you highlight a troll, you feed them. This is exactly the type of attention they yearn for.

Maybe we should make their nodes harder to approve, then? For example require 3 or even 5 approval nodes for a root node by somebody with negative XP.

I think that could work, because harmless questions will get them fairly fast, and troll postings won't as easily. And I'm rather suspicious when I see a post which isn't all that new and isn't approved yet.

For a user below the level in which you gain approval an consideration powers, all seems normal, except that the nodes aren't approved as fast as before, and hopefully not at all in the case of troll posts. Only experienced users would notice a difference in the UI.

In reply to Re^2: Penance Highlighting? by moritz
in thread Penance Highlighting? by cmv

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