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[–]willneu97/r/themountaingoats 2 points3 points  (8 children)

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I believe when you set the minimum karma, it has to be karma that was earned on the subreddit.

[–]ChingShih/r/RealTimeStrategy[S] 2 points3 points  (7 children)

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Ah, that's interesting. I'll lower it to 20 or something and see if that helps. Kind of a weird way to do things, but I can see why that would be relevant for the really large subs.

[–]permaculture 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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I found it quite surprising that the wiki edit permission settings are on

http://www.reddit.com/r/-subreddit-/wiki/settings/index

and also

http://www.reddit.com/r/-subreddit-/about/edit/

Why stick them on two different pages?

[–]appropriate-username/r/toonmusic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Per-page permissions and entire wiki permissions.

[–]appropriate-username/r/toonmusic 0 points1 point  (4 children)

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Yep:

You should be able to control access requirements such as account age, or minimum subreddit karma. The calculation for amount of karma is the users comment or link karma in your subreddit, whichever is higher. So if you require 100 karma, and I have 100 comment karma in your subreddit, and 0 link karma, I can still access the wiki.

[–]ChingShih/r/RealTimeStrategy[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

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Yeah, I got that part. What I didn't understand was that the karma is subreddit specific. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to keep track of how much karma the average user earns, but I've lowered the threshold sufficiently to where it shouldn't cause too many problems.

Thanks.

[–]andytuba/r/Enhancement 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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It's the same way that reddit determines your post/comment posting privileges in a subreddit. The "you're doing that too much -- wait a minute" error comes from having low karma in that subreddit.

You don't have to worry about it except to tell people that, if they haven't gotten enough karma to post, they should go make some popular comments/posts; or you could turn down the minimum karma requirement.

[–]ChingShih/r/RealTimeStrategy[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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The "you're doing that too much -- wait a minute" error comes from having low karma in that subreddit.

Ah, that's good to know. I was never quite sure about that.

if they haven't gotten enough karma to post, they should go make some popular comments/posts

This is what's hard for me as a mod to work out. Because it's a game-related sub-reddit the upvotes usually go to someone who says something humorous or factually accurate. But we try to cut down on the memes and that sort of thing, so a user who regularly says humorous things might receive as many upvotes in one thread as downvotes in another. And I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know what the average rate of karma per person is to know what a reasonable karma threshold is for editing the wiki and such.

On one hand I want the Wiki to be accessible to newcomers, on the other I want people who can routinely provide good content to be able to edit the wiki without having less experienced users interfere or argue about "facts."

I can see how the karma threshold makes sense for really large sub-reddits, but I think that /r/darksouls has too unusual a karma/person rate for it to be a useful indicator for us.

[–]andytuba/r/Enhancement 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Eh, make the minimum karma requirement 15 then. Just a token participation level.
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