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As I recall from past discussions, pg has indicated that his algorithm discounts outliers. So someone who has one 40+ comment and a string of comments rated 1

As I recall from past discussions, pg has indicated that his algorithm discounts outliers. So someone who has one 40+ comment and a string of comments rated 1 or 0 will not see the benefit of the outlier. A solution to piling on, if it persists, may simply be placing a hard limit on the maximum score a comment can garner. Slashdot and Kuro5hin both max out comments (Slashdot at 5, Kuro5hin used to max out at 5 but that was later changed to 3).

pyre 17y ago
> A solution to piling on, if it persists, may simply be placing a hard limit on the maximum score a comment can garner. Slashdot and Kuro5hin both max out comments (Slashdot at 5, Kuro5hin used to max out at 5 but that was later changed to 3). The problem being that sometimes there are posts that deserve well above the limit for their insight/knowledge. A logarithmic scale might be better. Up to 5 points there is a 1-vote-to-1-point correlation, after that it takes an increasing number of actual votes to increment the comment to the next point (i.e. 10 votes to get from 5 to 6 points, 15 more votes to get to 7 point, etc) That way a comment that is able to get a massive amount of votes gets 'rewarded' for it above a comment that is only able to get 5 votes.