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[–] poppysquash [S] ago 

On a fundamental level I agree with you. Nothing is worse than trying to join a community you just found and would really like but being turned away because you werent a member for a long time.

However the basis of reddit and voat having karma means that once a community expands, you have the well documented phenomena of the community moving towards fluff content. In my mind, this is an even worse fate than what you described in your post. hence I'm a fan of keeping the community small or the barrier of entry high, only to filter out trolls. Yes I do realise it will also filter out the speed of lower-effort individuals but in my opinion that's okay as a trade off.

TLDR: removing karma would be a great experiment.