Rigging any vote-based social website to keep the “early spirit”

Re:Rigging any vote-based social website to keep the “early ... by lubujackson on Sunday June 09, 2013 @11:58AM (#5849342)

Better yet would be to rig the vote based on usage. So if you have 500 comments your vote is worth more than someone with 10, you could even scale it precisely on a curve. This way, rather than having a static seniority-based system the site can still develop based on who uses the site the most. You'd still have herd mentality, but there would be more insulation from it.

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Re:Rigging any vote-based social website to keep the “early ... by eli on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:05PM (#5849593)

Not sure I buy that people who make lots of comments are better qualified to pick good content.

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Re:Rigging any vote-based social website to keep the “early ... by tomjen3 on Sunday June 09, 2013 @12:36PM (#5849488)

Wouldn't it be better to simply scale people not on the amount of things you do, but on how many upvotes you have received over the last 18 months (discard the last six to prevent a set of newcommers from fundamentally changing the vote distribution), that way you are encouraging good postings (according to the local norms, anyway) over just posting things.

You have to be careful, though. Some people post things that are uniformily well recieved (patio11 comes to mind) whereas I have had posts anywhere from -20 or so to +34.

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Re:Rigging any vote-based social website to keep the “early ... by danmaz74 on Sunday June 09, 2013 @12:02PM (#5849351)

Spammers would love that ;)

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