2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots
ComputerGuru: That would encourage them to try to generate spam comments in the slim hope that they'd get upvoted.... which would lead to a much worse spam situation.For instance, they'd employ Markov Chains to re-hash comments in a post, or from older posts, or from the text of the article.One thing I've learned: spammers don't give up. If you give them an easy way to submit that's even easier for you to clean up, that's better than starting an all-out war that'll just increase the spam content and make it more difficult to filter out.