The confusion is because you are trying to do two contradictory things with your “vote”. If the goal is to inform future readers as to whether a post is high quality or low quality, clearly you should just give your personal assessment. The only reason you’d take priors into account was if your “vote” was actually a “bet” and there was some advantage to “betting” correctly.
The confusion is because you are trying to do two contradictory things with your “vote”. If the goal is to inform future readers as to whether a post is high quality or low quality, clearly you should just give your personal assessment. The only reason you’d take priors into account was if your “vote” was actually a “bet” and there was some advantage to “betting” correctly.
Lesson learned: If you want useful feedback, avoid making it a bet/competition.
But what about prediction markets?