Timeline for Answering - a race
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| Jan 9, 2012 at 21:16 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @cyberx86, you are perfectly correct and there's nothing wrong with that. Nevertheless, well written questions and answers do get more votes. | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 5:23 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | And sometimes you get answers that are both correct and outstanding, like this: serverfault.com/a/347786/7709 | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 5:14 | comment | added | cyberx86 | @John Gardeniers: I think that part of the issue here is that people assign different meanings to their 'up vote'. To one person it may mean that the answer is right, to another it might mean that the answer is outstanding, etc. If the meaning was standardized (or arguably, if you could cast one up vote for 'correct' and two for 'exceptional') I think it would result in more votes. | |
| Jan 9, 2012 at 5:14 | comment | added | cyberx86 | @Mark Henderson: Thanks for the feedback. The random arrangement doesn't fully address the problem - only a small percent of users vote (a real problem as you point out) - which means that there is likely a (small) time delay between votes. This results in the first upvoted answer rising to the top, negating the random sort, and causing a positive feedback loop. It also somewhat disadvantages answers that arive say 15 minutes later (although, as per sysadmin1138 answer, these will likely rise over a longer period of time). | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | "not enough people vote..." Sometimes there just isn't a reason to vote. There are some really great answers but the majority are mediocre at best - mine included. | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 20:29 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | You are the exception... | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 20:19 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | "not enough people vote..." I'm doing my best! | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 20:11 | history | answered | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |