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This is a bigger, longer term thought, but… perhaps upvotes and downvotes can be subtly weighed by karma? This would give proven contributors more trust. In
by wood_spirit 2y ago
This is a bigger, longer term thought, but…
perhaps upvotes and downvotes can be subtly weighed by karma? This would give proven contributors more trust. In the case of job posts, it would enlist them in zapping the spam they recognise month after month?
And beyond that, beyond applicability to job posts, perhaps voting can be a collaborative filtering bubble instead of absolutes? This makes spammers and voting rings end up in an echo chamber? And perhaps for normal posts instead of there being an early top level comment that gets to the top and stays there and monopolises the conversation, you get more variety and people more easily find the conversation they come for?
- dang 2y agoWe've experimented with vote weighting over the years but the results have been disappointing. It's not easy to come up with criteria for users whose votes are more reliable.
- wood_spirit 2y agoIt’s easy to imagine a dozen ways to weigh things and they can’t all be right… So perhaps recruit some small group of math minded HNers and see what insights and ideas they wring from access to the fully voting history?