I'd be interested in seeing how we'd react with a logarithmic voting system.
Base 10 for example: the most-significant digit would be visible and the rest be zero's: '5' -> '5', '42' -> '40', '256' -> '200'.
That way, you could still see the impact of a comment while hiding the voting trends and other numeric details that keep you from unbiased (err, less biased) voting.
It might be more mathematical to use e=2.718 rather than 10, and perhaps even displaying the log value instead of the rounded number, e.g. 3 -> 1, 9 -> 2, 29 -> 3, with suitable fiddling for negative vote totals.
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I'd be interested in seeing how we'd react with a logarithmic voting system.
Base 10 for example: the most-significant digit would be visible and the rest be zero's: '5' -> '5', '42' -> '40', '256' -> '200'.
That way, you could still see the impact of a comment while hiding the voting trends and other numeric details that keep you from unbiased (err, less biased) voting.
It might be more mathematical to use e=2.718 rather than 10, and perhaps even displaying the log value instead of the rounded number, e.g. 3 -> 1, 9 -> 2, 29 -> 3, with suitable fiddling for negative vote totals.
Why is it more mathematical to use e? (Hint: depending on what you're trying to do, it's not.)
Might be interesting, if much more computationally intensive to show the z-score of a comment vs the rest in the thread (that have votes).