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that's by design - popularity is not a good judge however. A better system would be to provide upvote/downvote buttons to only a small, random subset of users i
by buboard 7y ago
that's by design - popularity is not a good judge however. A better system would be to provide upvote/downvote buttons to only a small, random subset of users in each topic.
- castlecrasher2 7y agoor maybe a firing line approach: everyone has upvote/downvote buttons but not everyone's work
- Ma8ee 7y agoHow would that improve the situation?
- buboard 7y ago- discourage brigading - discourage mob behavior - prevent particularly biased individuals from skewing every discussion - adds stochastic variety to the biases of the group
- firethief 7y agoI don't see how approximate popularity is better than popularity for the first three factors. It would achieve the 4th in individual threads, but amplifying randomly-selected niche viewpoints in different threads adds up to the same biases across threads (unless the selection of blessed users is thread-independent, in which case the community has a randomly-selected group of first-class citizens).