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by amichail·19y ago·view on hn ↗
There is no standard test to be used. The questions are created by members of the community. To vote/submit/comment, you will need to answer one of these questions chosen at random.

If you don't get it right, you might have to wait an hour or so before trying again with another randomly chosen question. And if you get too many wrong, you would get kicked off the site.

If many members start to see contributions from people who are not that smart, they could try to make their questions tougher. And so you would have a higher probability of receiving a tougher question.

If many members feel that the community is too small, then they might make their questions easier. And so you would have a higher probability of receiving an easier question.

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Yet another variation involves an IQ filter so that you can filter out submissions and links submitted by dumb people.

You could even do it with votes as well, so that a link submitted by a high IQ user but endorsed mostly by dumb people would not appear for you.

My response isn't very scientific, but it seems that having to take a "test" in order to be able to post or comment somewhere would immediately indicate that the community in question would be elitist and probably boring.