Article Scoring
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I was wondering if anyone had considered changing the weighting of votes to take into account how an individual votes. What I mean is this: For each article a person votes on... First calculate the standard deviation of the votes on an article. Determine how many standard deviations away their vote is (decimal number) Then add that number into an average from other articles they voted on This average distance from the mean vote (in standard deviations) would then affect the weight of their next vote. This solves a lot of problems. People who like to vote low or high to "move" the current score to what they think it should be loose the ability to do so. In addition, on the rare occasion that someone likes to give everyone "1"s their voting power is also diminished. I think it would encourage people to vote the score they think something should get rather then trying to "move" the score to what they think it should be. Now, there are a few more things involved with this. Each person's average difference from the mean vote (in standard deviations) would need to be recalculated before they vote again. If they are the second person to vote for something and the scores go as follows: 5, 2,1,1,2,2 Then without the recalculation there voting power is diminished when it clearly should not be. This also raises the issue of re-scoring everything they ever voted for when their voting power changes. I don’t think it is necessary to re-score everything, but I really don't care. Also, if someone wants to get fancy and add statistical error calculations, for things with very few votes, it couldn't hurt. Well, that's it. I know it is a lot to ask, but as long as there is a rewrite in the works I thought I should put it out there.:-D