I have been a member of Reddit for years and years. I’m a natural introvert and so I only make a comment when I have something of value to add to a conversation. However in some of the communities I’m a member of you have to have 500 karma points to make a new post. I don’t ‘shitpost’ for fun, and therefore my karma stacks very slowly. This made me think that probably a lot of the quiet, considered voices out there are even more skewed out of the conversations in some of these communities.

I guess I’m just looking for opinions (and karma lol). Is that a good noise control tactic, or does it simply discourage diversity in community conversations?