[mb-users] Brainztorming: rank edits, not users

[Per Øyvind Øygard]

On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:27:20 +0200, Bram van Dijk  
<bram_van_dijk at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I also like playing the devils advocate:
>
> This would mean that good edits receive less votes,
> which means that good edits have to wait even longer before getting  
> applied.
>
Of course, you can't get something for nothing. Personally I don't see it  
as a huge issue though, I see it as more important to filter out bad edits  
than promote good edits.

> Moreover, as bad edits are harder to vote on than good edits
> (you have to leave more notes, do some of the research yourself)
> the total number of votes would be falling probably.
>
And it's better that nobody looks at a bad edit and corrects it? We don't  
all have to duplicate the work either. After someone makes a note pointing  
out that capitalization is wrong then the rest of us can pretty much  
ignore it.

We all know that we have too few voters, and this isn't likely to do much  
for that, but for that exact reason I think it's important to maximise the  
value which we get out of each vote, i.e. they are used on important  
issues and not shoe-ins.

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Per (Wizzcat)