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Consider two users: Bob browses HN and upvotes about 1000 articles a month. Jill, on the other hand, upvotes only articles she considers to be exceptional and u
by Buttons840 10y ago
Consider two users: Bob browses HN and upvotes about 1000 articles a month. Jill, on the other hand, upvotes only articles she considers to be exceptional and upvotes about 1 article a month.
Should Bob have 1000 times more influence than Jill? Personally, I'd like to see what was so special about that one article Jill voted for, but a naive upvote mechanic considers it just a single vote, and is not noteworthy when compared with Bob's thousands upon thousands of votes. It would be nice is Jill's single vote was equal to 1000 votes from Bob.
Do any systems like this exist? It sounds good in theory, but I wonder how it would stand up to abuse?
- jbpetersen 10y agoAny ideas for ways it could be abused?
- ksec 10y agoIt should also consider the time spent on the site. If Jill only spend 10 minutes a day on HN, then her 1 upvote would be worth less. But BoB, upvoting 1000 articles, if he only spend the same 10 min day, then his upvote should be worth less on average.
- DanBC 10y agoIf Bob is upvoting good articles his votes should count. The problem on HN isn't that many people upvote, but that some people upvote bad submissions. It might be useful to look at people who regularly upvote bad submissions and down-weight their votes.
- amirouche 10y agoThat's how digg worked, it did not work well for them.