Should questions that are marked as duplicate have their upvotes (not the total votes) set to halve of the original post's upvotes, if the dupe's total votes is more than the original's?
For example; I ask a duplicate question (A
). My question (A
), gets a total of 200
upvotes and a total of 50
downvotes; so my post (A
) has 150
votes in total (upvotes - downvotes = total votes).
My question (A
) is a duplicate of post B
, which has a total of 150
upvotes and a total of 10
downvotes; so post B
has 140
votes in total.
So if we were to implement this idea, my post (A
), would have 75
upvotes (halve of B
's upvotes), and 50
downvotes (same as before); giving my duplicate post a grand total of 25
votes instead of 150
.
This way the original post: will always have more upvotes than the duplicate (which, well, just looks more natural), will help keep duplicates "lower" in the community (if that makes sense) & will help to discourage users from posting duplicates.
Anyway, this is just a suggestion. What do you think? Would this be helpful?
A
is a dupe.;)