People who regularly endorse comments that fail one or both of these tests will lose the ability to endorse comments.
Punishing people for endorsing comments that don't meet an arbitrary and vague content standard will inhibit endorsements. Endorsements are necessary for comments to show up. Seemingly weird comments that are brilliant only after reflection will not get endorsed. Hacker News will trend towards mediocrity. Another site killed by excessive moderation...
I run with dead comments showing. I hardly use my ability to down vote comments, but I rarely see a dead comment that didn't deserve it. There's a consensus on what should die here and I see no need to add more moderation.
Punishing people for endorsing comments that don't meet an arbitrary and vague content standard will inhibit endorsements.
This happens already with flagging and downvoting. If you flag or downvote too often/aggressively/whatever, you will have those privileges revoked. I used to go to /newest daily and upvote/flag until I lost my flagging privileges. I eventually got the ability to flag back but now I rarely go to /newest. It's the tragedy of the commons - if I go to /newest and flag/upvote, this is a better community because I'm active and participating. But if I am worried about being punished from doing so, I won't do it and will just hope that others will.
Punishing people for endorsing comments that don't meet an arbitrary and vague content standard will inhibit endorsements. Endorsements are necessary for comments to show up. Seemingly weird comments that are brilliant only after reflection will not get endorsed. Hacker News will trend towards mediocrity. Another site killed by excessive moderation...
I run with dead comments showing. I hardly use my ability to down vote comments, but I rarely see a dead comment that didn't deserve it. There's a consensus on what should die here and I see no need to add more moderation.