On the one hand, I think it's cool that if I post something, I'm probably gonna get like 5 or 6 points. It's lame for it to sit at one, even if you expect people saw it and liked it, how would you know?
On the other hand, it's fairly obvious that you guys are going through /new and hitting the up button for everything. When 90% of the content has 5-6 points, having a post with 6 points is basically like having a post with 1.
I would suggest two things:
1. The people who upvote everything should scale it back slightly to maybe upvoting their top 2/3s of favorite posts.
2. The people who don't vote or rarely vote (I fall into this category) should up their game and try to vote more frequently.
If we did this then the vote ratios would look very different. Instead of a blanket of 6 points of every post, peaks and valleys would form based on what people like.
It would be a better experience.
Edit: P.S. I think having points less evenly distributed creates more of an incentive for people who vote very rarely to participate. Imagine if you liked a post and saw it was underrated? A non-voter might even put aside their apathy to give it a boost.
On the one hand, I think it's cool that if I post something, I'm probably gonna get like 5 or 6 points. It's lame for it to sit at one, even if you expect people saw it and liked it, how would you know?
On the other hand, it's fairly obvious that you guys are going through /new and hitting the up button for everything. When 90% of the content has 5-6 points, having a post with 6 points is basically like having a post with 1.
I would suggest two things:
1. The people who upvote everything should scale it back slightly to maybe upvoting their top 2/3s of favorite posts.
2. The people who don't vote or rarely vote (I fall into this category) should up their game and try to vote more frequently.
If we did this then the vote ratios would look very different. Instead of a blanket of 6 points of every post, peaks and valleys would form based on what people like.
It would be a better experience.
Edit: P.S. I think having points less evenly distributed creates more of an incentive for people who vote very rarely to participate. Imagine if you liked a post and saw it was underrated? A non-voter might even put aside their apathy to give it a boost.
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