I would have thought the opposite would happen: currently inexperienced users' replies can be voted on without any accountability whereas qualified voting should make it less of a perceived risk to reply, because there are fewer opinions than votes that can be properly expressed in reply (with the exception of those that might fall under the category of "pointless replies just to be able to vote" to which I have thought of another countermeasure - see below).

Consequently I would expect the ratings pool to be enriched (assuming there is a "cashing-in" process when such a change is made). There might initially (and briefly) be more work for consideration until a few pointless replies were thrown to the lions (i.e. I am adding that a counter-measure to pointless replies would be to remove the voting restriction) - at which point that trick would become less popular.

-M

Free your mind

In reply to Re^2: Put your mouth where your money is? by Moron
in thread Put your mouth where your money is? by Moron

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