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The solution I came up with was just hiding the number of votes either way. Bump up good things and lower bad things, but otherwise keep it normal. It's not a p
by unalone 18y ago
The solution I came up with was just hiding the number of votes either way. Bump up good things and lower bad things, but otherwise keep it normal. It's not a perfect solution, but at least it stops the groupthink and leaves us with the dilution problem.
- tdoggette 18y agothesixtyone.com, a social music site, has a clever way of dealing with this: You can "bump" a song, but it costs you "points," which you see a return on if the song becomes popular. It turns upward momentum into a currency instead of something tossed around in large amounts.
- unalone 18y agoYeah, that's another solution. Problem is, it's unwieldy for news sites, since usually you're not submitting your own content.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoBut that only exacerbates the problem. People will start to vote for what they think others will like instead of what they personally like.
- abcde 18y agoBut that's how the stock market works. :) Trying to do better than that is futile.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoThe stock market wouldn't work either if users of the products companies make would act like investors. Just imagine what they would buy :-)