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I 've seen many solutions, and personally i believe it's a psychological matter of attention overload: too many submissions / comments -> less time spent on cri

I 've seen many solutions, and personally i believe it's a psychological matter of attention overload: too many submissions / comments -> less time spent on critical review -> hasty "cat picture" upvotes. Let's create artificial scarcity: let each user be able to vote only on a small random sample of submissions/comments Other ideas: Require approval by 2 blindly selected users before showing, or allow multiple dimensions in voting[1]; but these don't seem to work. Anyway, this is a deep issue, essentially political [2]. It's also fun to consider the dizzying election procedure that the Venetians used [3]. [1] http://textchannels.com/ http://textchannels.com/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice#Selection_of_the_Doge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice#Selection_of_the...

ansible 14y ago
...let each user be able to vote only on a small random sample of submissions/comments Slashdot first pioneered that. In case you are not familiar with the scheme, all logged-in users are occasionally asked to vote with their 5 allotted points. Users with high karma are given a chance to vote more often. The points expire in a day or so if they are not used. They also have a meta-moderation system, where you judge how others have used their votes. They've had the present system for a while (I want to say over 6 years, but I don't frequent the site as much these days). The overall quality of comments there is... OK. Not great, but not as bad as it was for a while around the turn of the millenium.
- zerostar07 14y ago
  actually, it shouldn't be a per day quota because heavy users will be disadvantaged. The idea is to have a steady rate of voting for as long as a user is on the site.
- icebraining 14y ago
  The quality of Slashdot comments depends a lot on your default threshold. If you hide every post with score < 2, it's decent. If you include lower scores, it drops considerably. -1 is almost masochism.
  - ansible 14y ago
    Yeah, I have my account set to show 3+ comments by default. I also appreciated the changes they made when comments marked as 'funny' didn't count towards your karma, and made it possible to filter based on that too.
- debacle 14y ago
  The level of snarky comments there in contrast with actual commentary is too high, though. If a story has 25 comments chances are one is modded insightful though it is factually incorrect, two are modded as funny, and the rest are hidden. I remember when real scientists used to visit /. Now, not so much.
- finnw 14y ago
  It's not really a random sample, because you can choose which 5 posts to use your votes on.

ansible 14y ago

...let each user be able to vote only on a small random sample of submissions/comments Slashdot first pioneered that. In case you are not familiar with the scheme, all logged-in users are occasionally asked to vote with their 5 allotted points. Users with high karma are given a chance to vote more often. The points expire in a day or so if they are not used. They also have a meta-moderation system, where you judge how others have used their votes. They've had the present system for a while (I want to say over 6 years, but I don't frequent the site as much these days). The overall quality of comments there is... OK. Not great, but not as bad as it was for a while around the turn of the millenium.

zerostar07 14y ago
actually, it shouldn't be a per day quota because heavy users will be disadvantaged. The idea is to have a steady rate of voting for as long as a user is on the site.
icebraining 14y ago
The quality of Slashdot comments depends a lot on your default threshold. If you hide every post with score < 2, it's decent. If you include lower scores, it drops considerably. -1 is almost masochism.
- ansible 14y ago
  Yeah, I have my account set to show 3+ comments by default. I also appreciated the changes they made when comments marked as 'funny' didn't count towards your karma, and made it possible to filter based on that too.
debacle 14y ago
The level of snarky comments there in contrast with actual commentary is too high, though. If a story has 25 comments chances are one is modded insightful though it is factually incorrect, two are modded as funny, and the rest are hidden. I remember when real scientists used to visit /. Now, not so much.
finnw 14y ago
It's not really a random sample, because you can choose which 5 posts to use your votes on.