spam prevention mechanism - earn 10 reputation to post more hyperlinks no more

Question

My prior rant (see on edits) proved somewhat valuable - there is now a not-anymore-so-new feature that gives us 100 points (leaving us at the funny 101 state) when creating a new user on sites from SE network, proven you had enough points (200) in at least one.

Now I still think 10 rep points is too much of a requirement to new users to post more than 1 hyperlink. And I'm not alone (at least among skeptics). If the intention is preventing spam, why not simply applying the SPAM prevention mechanism (that one with the cute robot image) to everyone with less than 10 points and remove this limit once and for all?

Answer 1

You don't have much reputation on the sites, as you've been a member of all the sites for just a day.

You seem to be more interested in superuser, and you already have 41 rep points there. You'll realize that the more you participate on the sites, the more rep you'll get at a fast enough rate (no more than 200 points from votes casted on your posts in a single day).

Reputation is not shared across the sites because the rep is supposed to be a measure of your participation in one of the sites, and in a smaller sense, knowledge about the site's domain. Every site has a specific knowledge domain, your knowledge about programming does not mean you have a good knowledge of networking.

Answer 2

Have you associated your accounts?

There is a bonus involved, if, as random says, you have 200 reputation on one of the accounts.

Apart from the bonus, it would be misleading to share reputation between accounts.

For example, answering questions on SO with reputation earned on SU might persuade readers that there was some kind of expertise involved.

Answer 3

^{I've just stumbled upon this old question of mine, and ...}

I decided to do a little test creating a new user to see if it was still valid. Well...

Since then, a lot has changed in the StackExchange Network (which wasn't even called that back then). Now new users have a lot of stuff to do before posting a question. And preventing spam is certainly not dealt like it was before - I couldn't even see any mechanism, which means it's probably much more advanced now. :-)

Thanks to Mat's comment, what I could see is that there is still a limitation to posting hyperlinks, among other restrictions. I could post a test question with 3 links, 1 of them were "internal" within SEN. I think that's fair enough.

^{So, even if no engineer responsible to do those modifications ever got to read this question, I find it awesome they still addressed it! :-)}