The problem is, without these measures forums quickly get overrun by spam.
So they use reputation / points / karma / invitations as a proxy for trust.
You don't have the right to demand people's attention. You have to earn that.
> HackerNews makes it hard to post anonymously. If you signup and try to post a lot of text or god forbid a Show HN you spent weeks building, it shadow bans you for at least five days. It forces you to wait before you can participate.
I don't think that is automatically true, I've seen many new accounts with a single post/comment.
Maybe what happens is that the threshold for your comment to be greyed out is probably lower for new accounts. Same for flagged post, maybe a single flag is enough to kill a submission by a new account?
five days is nothing.
invitations are for hype as much as for filtering. diminishing returns. eventually invites get to those “you” didn’t want to invite.
there are subreddits to help you boost karma to get over the karma hump. ten days is still basically nothing.
these policies help deter bad actors. but not well. bad actors can plan ahead.
feel excluded? no.
there is no ideal. there are only attempts to mitigate humanity’s negative impact. some work better than others. none work great. humans are stubborn.
I don't think this is true of HN. Here I am posting a comment from a brand new account. Can you see it?
> If you signup and try to post a lot of text or god forbid a Show HN you spent weeks building, it shadow bans you for at least five days. It forces you to wait before you can participate.
Firstly is that actually true? I feel like I've seen any number of interesting posts from brand new accounts.
Secondly, if you have "spent weeks building" something it will not kill you to wait for five days to tell us about it.
> This doesn't let you share something important with many people anonymously and quickly.
Nothing springs to mind that is that important that:
• It can't wait a week or two
• Would be of no interest to conventional news organisations
What specifically did you have in mind?
Because at the end of the day, without clarification, this sounds a lot like "Spammer would like to know how avoid the spam filtering please."