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This is a problem for new user growth on all reputation-based sites -- review sites like Yelp, even HN.


The difference is that those sites generally don't hard gate features behind having a certain amount of MeowMeowBeenz.


Sort of -- Yelp will hide negative reviews from brand new users, and HN enables some light moderation features and faster commenting as your karma increases.




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