Timeline for Is the voting and reputation system sustainable? How can we improve it or maybe it should be replaced?
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| Nov 21, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | The first bullet point is the fastest gun in the west phenomenon (FGITW). | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | De Novo | @rockwalrus-stopharmingMonica not a bad idea in general, but you'd need a "views by answer" estimate that can clearly discriminate between answers on the same page. This would be a new feature and has been avoided in the past. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 15:01 | comment | added | Stop Harming the Community | @Peilonrayz Dividing by the number of views tends to push content that doesn't get voted on towards the center of the list. It has to be upvoted continually to stay on top. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 2:15 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2019 at 1:36 | comment | added | Peilonrayz | @rockwalrus-stopharmingMonica So first -> more views, more views -> top, top -> more views? | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 1:28 | comment | added | Stop Harming the Community | @Peilonrayz the author suggests dividing by the number of times the item has been viewed in a case like that. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 0:01 | comment | added | Peilonrayz | @rockwalrus-stopharmingMonica Maybe the site I main at is special but that wouldn't help much. The not-terrible answers normally don't get downvotes. | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 23:53 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | Many accepted, top-voted answers that are just plain wrong or just really bad or even so bad the language author commented on it. | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 22:00 | comment | added | Stop Harming the Community | @Iamnotthewayyouspeak There are ways to fairly deal with items that get different amounts of exposure. | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | I am not the way you speak | @SurpriseDog Those are good thoughts, but it doesn't change the fact that most who visit a question and vote on its answers will not return to read later-coming answers, so the first answers get more views and have a higher likelihood of getting votes. To change that, answer would have to be held for a while and then all published at the same time, which will make asking unattractive (and cause lots of duplicate answers). | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 19:26 | comment | added | SurpriseDog | SE should randomize the order of answers and hide their scores for the first day or so to give everyone a chance to answer, instead of all the upvotes going to the first one in the list. | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | Marco13 | All true, and one could list many, many more - but that's not really much for an "answer to this question" :-/ (I.e. no downvote, but no uvpote either...) | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 18:11 | comment | added | πάντα ῥεῖ | You're missing the point of longer terms for questions and answers, and how they tend to become useful for future research of other users. | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 18:01 | comment | added | De Novo | indeed, there are many cases on SO where answers attract upvotes, but if you were to actually run the code, you'd see that it either fails or produces something other than the desired outcome. It's surely too expensive of a feature, but wouldn't it be nice if there was an interpreter or compiler that would actually check to see if a code snippet throws an error before allowing an answer post? | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 17:58 | history | edited | I am not the way you speak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 19, 2019 at 17:51 | history | answered | I am not the way you speak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |