random thought: are the most useful posts typically karma approximately 10, and 40 votes to get there? what if it was possible to sort by controversial? maybe only for some users or something? what sorts of sort constraints are interesting in terms of incentivizing discussion vs agreement? blah blah etc
I like thinking about ways to use and get value out of our voting system, but I pretty strongly suspect there’s no low-hanging fruit like this. It’s too easy to vote, strong votes overwhelm normal ones, and the bias against downvotes gets in the way of interesting disagreements.
I do wish they’d show number of voters in addition to total score, but I don’t think anything more complicated than that is likely to work.
random thought: are the most useful posts typically karma approximately 10, and 40 votes to get there? what if it was possible to sort by controversial? maybe only for some users or something? what sorts of sort constraints are interesting in terms of incentivizing discussion vs agreement? blah blah etc
I like thinking about ways to use and get value out of our voting system, but I pretty strongly suspect there’s no low-hanging fruit like this. It’s too easy to vote, strong votes overwhelm normal ones, and the bias against downvotes gets in the way of interesting disagreements.
I do wish they’d show number of voters in addition to total score, but I don’t think anything more complicated than that is likely to work.
it does show number of voters on hover