Timeline for Is it wise to keep the relation between votes and rep linear?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 6, 2014 at 15:34 | comment | added | DanielSank | @tpg2114: Right. While I could understand a lot of people disagreeing with OP's proposed answer to the stated question, I don't understand how they could "disagree with the question" as it is a good question. | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 13:47 | comment | added | tpg2114 | @bobie Re your last point: There are 4 answers here and so people coming along can upvote or downvote your question and the argument laid out in an answer that they agree/disagree with. In other words, not everybody who votes needs to discuss. Maybe their only post would be "I agree with XXXX's answer" which is pointless. If your question had lots of downvotes and no answers, then people may be lazy. | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 13:45 | comment | added | tpg2114 | @DanielSank That's exactly how meta works. You vote whether you agree or disagree with the question. And likewise with answers. | |
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 20:53 | comment | added | DanielSank | Why is this question downvoted? Are we now downvoting when we disagree with OP's opinion even if OP is asking a good question? | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 5:50 | comment | added | Pharap | This is one of the reasons many people out there genuinely hate the reputation system (and perhaps to a lesser extent, the stack exchange in general). | |
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| Aug 16, 2014 at 18:37 | comment | added | Floris | I hit the reputation cap quite frequently, and not just on my answer to the "mass of a coin" question. If you want to become a 100k rep user, you need to keep at it - one hit wonders will not, ultimately, carry you across the line. Anyone who has visited this site more than a few times will have a pretty good idea of who the "scholars" on the site are - the rep is one piece of information, but so it the user's profile, and simply the quality of the answers they write. I believe the system works well enough (even though I get bummed every time I hit 200…). Happy to leave it as is. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 13:53 | comment | added | Jim | Isn't this discussion ultimately pointless? We can't change it at Physics.SE, only on the mother site. And they aren't going to change it because it works well overall. You could attempt to get their attentions and change this feature, but nothing will change because it would be too massive to implement. It would mean completely changing the privilege system too. So even if we all here say "Ya, it is a lousy system that should be changed to what bobie suggests" nothing will happen. So again, isn't this discussion pointless? | |
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| Aug 12, 2014 at 5:59 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 5:29 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2014 at 5:01 | comment | added | John Rennie | @Bernhard: :-)) | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 4:16 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2014 at 0:58 | answer | added | Alfred Centauri | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | Bernhard | Waiting for @JohnRennie here: "Note that downvotes in the Meta just indicate disagreement with your views, not that it's a stupid question. I think your question is a perfectly reasonable one, and my downvote indicates only that I don't agree with your view." | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 18:03 | comment | added | Bernhard | @bobie "I suppose everyone will agree that it is utterly unfair that a member who works hard for months (...) reaches say, 500 pts. of rep, while another one, just asking a rather silly but viral question, gets 3 times as much." Well, the silly question attracted a lot more people to the website, that is also worth something. Also, for<2k rep you also get awarded for editting questions. I do not really see the problem you are trying to solve. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 16:53 | answer | added | Emilio Pisanty | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 15:38 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 15:27 | comment | added | ACuriousMind Mod | I agree with @KyleKanos, but it's gonna be [status-declined] hard. What about the truly great answers and question? Those that really deserve the votes they get, and where it is not popularity, but true merit as the cause? You can't distinguish those, and the posters deserve every point of rep they derive from it. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 15:23 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | If this is your proposal, it belongs on the mother meta: meta.stackexchange.com and not here. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 15:22 | comment | added | bobie | @ACuriousMind, see update | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 15:20 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 14:56 | comment | added | ACuriousMind Mod | It's a consistent problem that the influx of non-regular users on certain questions pushes the votes on these out of proportion. But limiting the rep cap further would hurt the prolific users who post many small things every day that get upvoted perhaps twice or thrice. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | bobie | @ACuriousMind, 40 votes a day for each question is out of proportions | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 14:17 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 14:01 | comment | added | Dilaton | Popular level questions and answers getting upvoted out of proportion is often among the controversial effects of the network wide hotlist. Sites that want to stay high-level, such as MathOverflow for example, do not appreciate it at all ... | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 13:41 | comment | added | ACuriousMind Mod | Um, the cap is quite small. 200 rep are 20 upvotes on answers, or 40 upvotes on questions. Write two or three nice answers in a day and you hit it. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 12:18 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 10:57 | answer | added | Emilio Pisanty | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 10:37 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:59 | comment | added | bobie | fair enough, I did my whack!, When you change a policy, it is of course good praxis to implement it for the future. Acquired rights and privileges (in law) are never questioned. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:57 | comment | added | Oded Staff | Sure the solution is simple. The impact on the dynamics of the site isn't so simple. Or possibly isn't even all that desirable. Changes, in particular to how reputation is earned, should be very very very carefully thought out - not just the simplicity of implementation and (perceived) fairness, but also what it would do to current reputations and how interaction in the future could be impacted. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:52 | comment | added | bobie | The tab of votes is the first everyone tries. Do you think we should also limit reputation gained from each answer? ...you surely realize that in a question that got 129k views and 344 votes, also the figures of the votes of the answer are going to be unreasonably bloated. A limit is a simple solution, a sort-of-logarithmic function might be more accurate | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:47 | comment | added | Oded Staff | There is the homepage. There are the tabs on the questions page (newest, frequent etc...) the sorting by votes is just one of many. BTW - Do you think we should also limit reputation gained from each answer? | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:43 | comment | added | bobie | This it the first list everyone looks at: physics.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes, I am a newbie so I am not aware of the others, i recently discovered this: physics.stackexchange.com/?tab=month. No matter how many lists are there we are discussing a principle: a limit of rep per question asked | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:37 | comment | added | Oded Staff | Top of which list? There's a bunch of them, you see? | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:33 | comment | added | bobie | I'm suggesting a limit not only per day but also per question. A question on top of the list is bound to get votes indefinitely, right? | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:29 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:17 | comment | added | Oded Staff | Reputation is capped at a daily maximum 200. If a question gets over 40 upvotes, the additional votes (that day) will not contribute to the OP reputation. Also see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work | |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 7:39 | history | edited | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 7:34 | history | asked | bobie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |