With 120k unique IPs a day, it is really surprising how few votes stories get. Most are under 100 points, only about once a month is there one over 1000 points. Do most of the readers not have accounts? Do people with accounts not up vote?
There was a statistic on Reddit yesterday that 90% of the people on that site did not have an account - and, 90% of the people who had an account have never voted.
As a long time reader and infrequent commenter, I rarely vote for any stories or comments, here or reddit. When I vote, it's usually on something I find especially interesting or thought provoking.
I rarely vote articles, it's irritating to navigate towards the little arrows: it's enough to target both the article link and comments link. Only if I catch a good article early enough I might give it a vote to boost it's visibility.
For what I've observed, giving a 0.01 implicit vote for each entry where both the article and the comments page were opened should yield sensible results. Articles chosen for reading have already been preliminarily filtered in my brain and I generally enjoy most of those articles.
Also I think there is a huge drop off in the number of upvotes for a particular story once it gets into the three figures. I only ever upvote small stories because that's when I feel I'm making a difference. Big stories are already big.
I only vote up stories that I would probably consider wanting to come back to again in the future, as a bookmark, since they get added to the user's saved stories list.
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With 120k unique IPs a day, it is really surprising how few votes stories get. Most are under 100 points, only about once a month is there one over 1000 points. Do most of the readers not have accounts? Do people with accounts not up vote?
There was a statistic on Reddit yesterday that 90% of the people on that site did not have an account - and, 90% of the people who had an account have never voted.
Maybe it's a similar scene here.
As a long time reader and infrequent commenter, I rarely vote for any stories or comments, here or reddit. When I vote, it's usually on something I find especially interesting or thought provoking.
I rarely vote articles, it's irritating to navigate towards the little arrows: it's enough to target both the article link and comments link. Only if I catch a good article early enough I might give it a vote to boost it's visibility.
For what I've observed, giving a 0.01 implicit vote for each entry where both the article and the comments page were opened should yield sensible results. Articles chosen for reading have already been preliminarily filtered in my brain and I generally enjoy most of those articles.
Also I think there is a huge drop off in the number of upvotes for a particular story once it gets into the three figures. I only ever upvote small stories because that's when I feel I'm making a difference. Big stories are already big.
I only vote up stories that I would probably consider wanting to come back to again in the future, as a bookmark, since they get added to the user's saved stories list.