Cool. That doesn’t seem like that big an issue to me, because the system has built-in error correction – people come back later, see that it’s slid past whichever direction they thought it should go, and can change their vote. It more robustly converges on Good Comment getting a proportionally correct-ish score (whereas the “roll a die in your head, upvote 33% of the time” will some non-trivial portion of the time result in things getting way-the-hell upvoted (or not) that should have been).
I should note: I don’t all think this is necessarily the best approach, just, it’s an approach that seems “reasonable” enough that describing it as ‘defeating the point of the voting system’ doesn’t seem accurate.
The core of the problem remains: it requires users to know what other users are doing (as well as how many other users there are, and how many other users are paying attention to a comment, and other such things). The cognitive overhead is tremendously higher. The potential for error is (thus) also much higher.
Right.
Cool. That doesn’t seem like that big an issue to me, because the system has built-in error correction – people come back later, see that it’s slid past whichever direction they thought it should go, and can change their vote. It more robustly converges on Good Comment getting a proportionally correct-ish score (whereas the “roll a die in your head, upvote 33% of the time” will some non-trivial portion of the time result in things getting way-the-hell upvoted (or not) that should have been).
I should note: I don’t all think this is necessarily the best approach, just, it’s an approach that seems “reasonable” enough that describing it as ‘defeating the point of the voting system’ doesn’t seem accurate.
The core of the problem remains: it requires users to know what other users are doing (as well as how many other users there are, and how many other users are paying attention to a comment, and other such things). The cognitive overhead is tremendously higher. The potential for error is (thus) also much higher.