That wouldn't necessarily work because the next person below PG would be likely to be more willing to upvote someone who wasn't as focused. They in turn would be willing to upvote someone else who was worse and so on.
I think it makes more sense for voting power to be associated with karma level.
> I think it makes more sense for voting power to be associated with karma level.
This could be gamed, or lead to runaway karma effects within a small, incestuous cabal.
If I were pg, I would handle it similarly to amichail's suggestion, but instead of voting power going to submitters of articles that I like, I would have it go to voters of articles that I like.
In other words, I would restate the problem as, "I can't be awake 24 hours to moderate every single submission, so instead, I'll assign invisible voting power based on how reliably a given voter's running and recent preferences match what I would want to see on the front page."
I would add some random jitter to the algorithm, to mildly penalize people whose votes are too similar to my own.
The bonus to consistently good submitters would not be better voting privileges, but better submitting privileges (better initial placement and/or slower decay).
And I would silently give voters and submitters whose patterns negatively correlated with my preferences corresponding penalties, and use their poor taste as valuable data on what not to put on the front page.
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That wouldn't necessarily work because the next person below PG would be likely to be more willing to upvote someone who wasn't as focused. They in turn would be willing to upvote someone else who was worse and so on.
I think it makes more sense for voting power to be associated with karma level.
> I think it makes more sense for voting power to be associated with karma level.
This could be gamed, or lead to runaway karma effects within a small, incestuous cabal.
If I were pg, I would handle it similarly to amichail's suggestion, but instead of voting power going to submitters of articles that I like, I would have it go to voters of articles that I like.
In other words, I would restate the problem as, "I can't be awake 24 hours to moderate every single submission, so instead, I'll assign invisible voting power based on how reliably a given voter's running and recent preferences match what I would want to see on the front page."
I would add some random jitter to the algorithm, to mildly penalize people whose votes are too similar to my own.
The bonus to consistently good submitters would not be better voting privileges, but better submitting privileges (better initial placement and/or slower decay).
And I would silently give voters and submitters whose patterns negatively correlated with my preferences corresponding penalties, and use their poor taste as valuable data on what not to put on the front page.