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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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That is a fair assessment. As it currently stands, those reeeeally good posts get an upvote from even the 14 or so people who will vote but are really stingy with their up button, plus the 6 who press up on everything.

But if those stingy people voted a little more, the reeeeally good post would still get proportionately more votes (because when is a moderately good post gonna get all 14 of them?), And the less interesting posts would remain low scoring.

As for the upvote everything crowd. They're already doing the work. If they were even slightly selective the result would be the same. They're always gonna upvote that really good post and the moderately good one, and maybe vote on some of the more boring ones as well but just not all of them.