On the value of scores and votes

[gilles]

@MartijnWeterings

This gamification system, which is about quantity of votes and not about quality of votes is gonna lose its value over time and sort of locks the game/play on any old post, making it such that most people lose the appetite to make any improvements in the old (popularized) topics.

There’s a discussion on using a different scoring method to give downvotes more weight: How should we compute post scores? - #2 by tuggyne

And also on sorting based on criteria other than votes, in particular age: Handling "misvoted" content - #6 by gilles

Thanks for the graph by the way.