Timeline for Do not show the score for users during primaries
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| Feb 20, 2014 at 18:12 | comment | added | The Unhandled Exception | I believe we disagree here and that's find @djechlin :) | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | djechlin | Further re. " it's just like the way the rest of the site is done!", I think you should have to sign up and log in to view questions and answers, on the grounds that "it's just like the way the rest of the site is done." But the moment you say "that's clearly different," I'm just going to say that a Q&A forum and an election are completely and as self-evidently different, much like religions and coffees are. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | djechlin | "And, take away the vote count and people will just start depending on some other incomplete criteria" now you just contradicted your previous sentence." now you just contradicted your previous sentence. Are those incomplete criteria the same criteria that the first votes were based upon by any chance? This is the herd effect, which you are actually arguing for. Whatever criteria the first few dozen votes use, the rest should just be a rehashing and reechoing of that, less we rely on "incomplete information." | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | djechlin | "And while I am sure that herd mentality influences the voting to a point" you sound extremely unsure, to the point that you seem to be neglecting or ignoring this fact entirely. "if people are voting for others because they have lots of upvotes they had to have first gained some upvotes through other means" so make the elections just take 3 hours or close them after 1000 votes, we don't need the other 3 days' worth of herd votes. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 14:45 | comment | added | djechlin | We don't elect questions and answers for office. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 14:22 | comment | added | The Unhandled Exception | @djechlin you missed the point of my first sentence: it's just like the way the rest of the site is done! Keeping the votes for candidates is sticking with the way votes work for questions and answers and I feel that's a good thing. And while I am sure that herd mentality influences the voting to a point, it has to start somewhere... if people are voting for others because they have lots of upvotes they had to have first gained some upvotes through other means. And, take away the vote count and people will just start depending on some other incomplete criteria, like reputation. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 0:06 | comment | added | The Unhandled Exception | Please ask that question on cogsci.se :) | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | djechlin | "I suppose in a way it influences herd mentality" oh, please. This is a well-established psychological law, I don't give a crap whether you can be bothered to see it. It's true and it's more or less what our primaries are based on right now. | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 23:23 | comment | added | badp | RE: edit. If I want a person to win, I'd +1 them regardless of their score. I've been doing campaigning for Oak, Grace Note and Juan Manuel on the bridge for a month now and I have no clue of when the elections will start... Also, you agree it's hardly important, yet it's the first, single biggest element on the user's application, shown right next to the vote buttons! | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 23:17 | history | edited | The Unhandled Exception | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 25, 2011 at 23:01 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @badp "Is this moderator better or worse than -1?" Is actually a very good way to approach voting. | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek | People are right that it's equivalent to post voting -- the difference between the groups is whether or not they think people vote independently of the vote score. badp (and I, for what it's worth) are apparently in the "people change their vote based on the current score" camp | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | The Unhandled Exception | Don't think about it like that... I don't know, not a very good answer, I know, but... that's not what the number means :-) | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 22:54 | comment | added | badp | Here's the problem, when I see a -1 score I don't think "Is this a good or a bad mod", I think "Is this moderator better or worse than -1? A negative post has incorrect information and is clearly wrong, this guy problably doesn't deserve a negative score! +1" | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 22:51 | history | answered | The Unhandled Exception | CC BY-SA 2.5 |