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Comment on Ask PG: How has voting habit/volume changed since being hidden?

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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).

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