Comments on: Rating Items by Number of Votes: Ur Doin It Rong http://jonathanstray.com/rating-items-by-number-of-votes Information, Culture, and Belief Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jonathan Stray » What is news when the audience is editor? http://jonathanstray.com/rating-items-by-number-of-votes/comment-page-1#comment-2250 Jonathan Stray » What is news when the audience is editor? Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:37:33 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=1012#comment-2250 [...] Rating items by number of votes: ur doing it rong. User-voting on items tends to favor the already popular. A statistical commentary on the problem, and a suggested solution. [...] [...] Rating items by number of votes: ur doing it rong. User-voting on items tends to favor the already popular. A statistical commentary on the problem, and a suggested solution. [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Stray » Identity, Anonymity, and Controlling Trolls http://jonathanstray.com/rating-items-by-number-of-votes/comment-page-1#comment-708 Jonathan Stray » Identity, Anonymity, and Controlling Trolls Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=1012#comment-708 [...] topic, and I’ll write more about it later. There are voting systems of all kinds, and the details matter. Compare Slashdot versus Digg versus Reddit. But all of these systems rate comments, not users, and [...] [...] topic, and I’ll write more about it later. There are voting systems of all kinds, and the details matter. Compare Slashdot versus Digg versus Reddit. But all of these systems rate comments, not users, and [...]

]]> By: Sam Atman http://jonathanstray.com/rating-items-by-number-of-votes/comment-page-1#comment-595 Sam Atman Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:52:03 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=1012#comment-595 All I ask is that I be invited to be a beta tester! This is brilliant work, Jonathan. I think you can provide some motivations for voting by keeping analytics of when people bother to vote as well as how often they trend with the eventual consensus. A vote on a site like this is essentially a guess as to what other people find interesting, and I'm guessing people would find it interesting to know how often and about what topics they're right. There's also the truism that people without much of a strong opinion can safely keep silent on their ambiguous feelings without biasing the sample. All I ask is that I be invited to be a beta tester!

This is brilliant work, Jonathan. I think you can provide some motivations for voting by keeping analytics of when people bother to vote as well as how often they trend with the eventual consensus. A vote on a site like this is essentially a guess as to what other people find interesting, and I’m guessing people would find it interesting to know how often and about what topics they’re right.

There’s also the truism that people without much of a strong opinion can safely keep silent on their ambiguous feelings without biasing the sample.

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