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I did a quick check a few days after the change and IIRC voting was down by about 20%.
by pg 15y ago
I did a quick check a few days after the change and IIRC voting was down by about 20%.
- breck 15y agoThanks. I wonder if the positive skewness has also gone down. I'd guess there's less "piling on". Previously if a comment had a high point score, you would stop to read it, and thus probably vote on it, causing it to have an even higher score. The new system lacks that positive feedback cycle. Top comments still are more likely to get upvotes because of their page position, but there's no easy way to distinguish how much better comment #6 is compared to comment #7 so comment #6 will get glossed over more under the new system.
- dazmax 15y agoIt could also skew the other way. Previously, I would often refrain from voting up a good comment if its score was already "high enough", so that my vote on an equally good but lower-rated comment would have relatively more weight.