Maybe a bit late to ask about this, but I realized how a vote really depends on the information you guys have from the votes (seeing as the votes are really used just to give a signal, and aren’t actually deciding anything).
Do you see all the votes, along with the user names?
Do you see each users’ votes, but anonymized?
Do you see only the final count, and not the votes?
We see information about how much individuals vote (i.e. total amount of points you’ve assigned and how many posts you’ve voted on), but not the details of which votes.
The current plan is something like: carve up vote totals from a couple different cross sections (i.e. check if there’s a difference between how the highest karma users voted vs the overall vote score, and probably checking what AF users thought about AF posts). I expect us to make those totals public.
I’m not sure about all the ways we will look at data but I expect the general principle will be “look for ways to to get insights about how people used it, while keeping everyone anonymized”.
We see information about how much individuals vote
For accuracy’s sake, I’ll add that we have all the data about who voted on what. Our internal policy is not to look at votes by specific users on specific posts unless we have really good reason to such as suspecting foul play.
Ray is correct about what we in fact look at, but feels important to say that we in principle could see it all if we chose to, and that we’re requesting some trust from the community.
Maybe a bit late to ask about this, but I realized how a vote really depends on the information you guys have from the votes (seeing as the votes are really used just to give a signal, and aren’t actually deciding anything).
Do you see all the votes, along with the user names?
Do you see each users’ votes, but anonymized?
Do you see only the final count, and not the votes?
We see information about how much individuals vote (i.e. total amount of points you’ve assigned and how many posts you’ve voted on), but not the details of which votes.
The current plan is something like: carve up vote totals from a couple different cross sections (i.e. check if there’s a difference between how the highest karma users voted vs the overall vote score, and probably checking what AF users thought about AF posts). I expect us to make those totals public.
I’m not sure about all the ways we will look at data but I expect the general principle will be “look for ways to to get insights about how people used it, while keeping everyone anonymized”.
For accuracy’s sake, I’ll add that we have all the data about who voted on what. Our internal policy is not to look at votes by specific users on specific posts unless we have really good reason to such as suspecting foul play.
Ray is correct about what we in fact look at, but feels important to say that we in principle could see it all if we chose to, and that we’re requesting some trust from the community.