A new way to vote in a social news site

3 pointsby amichail17 lat temu7 comments

The submitter includes a question with the submission.

Only those who get the question right may upvote/downvote the submission.

The challenge for the submitter is to come up with a question that upvoters would tend to get right while downvoters would tend to get wrong.

This motivation would probably restrict voting to only those people who know something about the submission topic.

This might be a good way to handle voting in a forum with wide scope.

3 comments

chrisduesing17 lat temu

I think this is far more likely to be used to exclude people who disagree with you.

<post on agile> Do you think waterfall is stupid? y/n

Posters don't get to influence the score their post gets, that is the perview of the community.

amichail17 lat temu

But you could easily lie in this case.

Since anyone can lie, this could become a psychology game.

jacquesm17 lat temu

The right answer to the question could be passed via back-channels so this is as gameable as could be.

amichail17 lat temu

You could allow the submitter to change the question and/or answer at any time for any reason.

stijnm17 lat temu

And, pray tell, what is the problem you are trying to solve?

amichail17 lat temu

Users should have some qualification to have the right to vote.

This may be high iq, knowlege of the submission topic, etc.

ErrantX17 lat temu

I dont think that is a metric easily measured - and I am convinced your solution doesnt measure it much, depending on the context.

So if a maths question was asked including complex mathematics then, yes, it would probably work. But many questions are just not that specialist!