3 ms·

I wonder why we do social media voting at all. Even if it isn’t ruined by racist trolls it’s still kind of silly isn’t it? How would a bunch of random stranger

I wonder why we do social media voting at all. Even if it isn’t ruined by racist trolls it’s still kind of silly isn’t it? How would a bunch of random strangers know which science project was good? And more importantly, why do we care what everyman Joe/Jolie has to say about anything? We’ve always had village idiots or people who stood on cardboard boxes and yelled about our impending doom, but when did we decide that it was a good idea to give these people a megaphone? Personally I think it’s rude as well. If I entered something cool into a science competition I’d appreachiate it if it was evaluated by people who actually knew something about science instead of entering some popularity contest.

dugditches 8y ago
Because it brings eyes to a project/company/product/etc. Why do you think shows like American Idol or weekly music countdowns were so popular? The feeling of participating and having an impact generates interest. Similar to the rise in Video Game streaming and Youtube(comments).
deleted 8y ago
[deleted]
abhishekjha 8y ago
> wonder why we do social media voting at all. I think it provides a way to organise good content or likely to be liked content as we can't load entire database to the user and ask them to sort through it themselves. On the other hand it would be nice if votes were never shown to people and just used in the back end to sort the good stuff.