mvs wrote:What I was getting at with my "asinine" (thanks mrchad9) comment about it being impossible to change voting behavior was that for years we've complained about the way people vote. None of these complaints change things one bit. We've essentially got a "thumbs up/thumbs down" system, despite numerous essays from individual members describing their nuanced voting patterns. I think the behavior is somehow emergent in the system, possibly because it's hard to tell the relationship between a vote and the page score. Whatever.
Right, nothing about the current voting process is going to change until the system is changed. I was simply responding to you saying it was impossible to address. It is actually very easy to address, Matt just has to decide to do it. It'd be more accurate to say it is impossible for you or me to address, but it is addressable.
Yes, the behavior is emergent in the system, but not because it's hard to tell the relationship between a vote and page score. It's easy... a 10 makes it go up and 1-9 make it go down. That's a thumbs up/thumbs down system as you said. Change it so that different scores can have varying positive effects, and you will see a lot more non-10s. Addressable.
And IF Matt were to work on it, why on earth would you propose he spend time and effort making a thumbs up/down system almost identical to what we already have? That's what you proposed. I'd suggest if we did clear the hurdle of Matt working on it, that he should make it BETTER.
mvs wrote:I hoped this thread wouldn't become another place to chew that old bone.
Well... you were the one who brought it up!