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>Making someone's votes count less would strongly discourage voting more often. But the nice part is you can control how you approach this weighting. Perhaps
by Klathmon 10y ago
>Making someone's votes count less would strongly discourage voting more often.
But the nice part is you can control how you approach this weighting.
Perhaps every days votes is normalized to 10. So if I only voted once it counts 10x, but if I voted 100 times each would count .1x.
There are tons of ways to implement it so the feeling of uselessness doesn't apply, after all, qt the end of the day we are pretty gullible bags of meat.
- pseudalopex 10y agoIf the weighting formula is known, I'm going to think twice before casting my second vote of the day. And it only takes one person to reverse-engineer it. That might not be a bad thing. I'm just saying it works against your goal of getting people to vote as many times as possible. You owe it to yourself to at least study Slashdot's system before putting too much thought into creative UX, dark patterns, and complex weighting. It isn't the last word in comment scoring, but as someone else pointed out, you could probably fill a book with all the lessons that shaped it.