Re: Put your mouth where your money is?

[polettix]

In the spirit of "me too!"...

It seems to me to be a major contributing factor to the fact that members don't really take the experience system too seriously given that it is so easy to vote without even really reading the post.

(Bold emphasys mine.)

Others have already pointed out directions about the XP system not being serious, so I won't repeat it here (hey! I just did!).

What really struck me is that you're starting from a potential weakness in the voting system and taking for granted that people actually exploit it. Some will surely do, but I value people (as a "whole") here at PM to think that this is really a problem. So what are we talking about?

My experience is more or less the contrary: when I want to see "what happened" in the monastery in the last few days, I usually head first to the Best Nodes section (later I lurk other sections, too). The kind of stuff I find there is usually fine, even if those nodes are probably the most exposed to the biasing you fear so much. Probably a lot of people voted those nodes just because they were "in the mainstream", but the fact remains: those nodes are usually valuable and deserve upvoting.

Probably you should provide some evidence of a real damage before trying to repair it.