Roadmapping: Amount of edits affects to the amount of votes
asked 2014-02-01 15:30:26 +0200
I've been following all the voting in general for a longer while, and actually made a small study out of it.
The result was, that as a content edit (even an empty one, nothing edited) lifts a question up to the default front page, those questions edited several times tend to gather more votes. Also, adding a new answer or editing content of any answer lift the question baqck to the top. These features, IMO, pulls the floor off from counting the votes for finding out the real importance of issues.
As an example:
- The most voted question https://together.jolla.com/question/914/introduced-in-1038-differentiate-native-sailfishos-and-android-apps-in-jolla-store/
- introduced 25-Dec-2013
- 9 lift-ups
- viewed 2000 times
- voted 434 times
- (votes/view ratio 15-22%)
- One to compare with: https://together.jolla.com/question/1339/show-calendar-entries-in-events-view/
- introduced 25-Dec-2013
- 1 lift-up
- 440 views
- 167 votes
- (votes/view ratio 38%)
The one above got the roadmap tag, one below didn't. These examples are not my own questions, I selected them to describe the result I got from the whole stydy. I wrote a couple of answers here how this could be avoided in the future, but I don't know if they are possible or not. Please add an answer if you come up with another idea.
ps. I'm not going to lift-up this :) However, each added answer does.
Jolla should also take into account the votes/view ratio when deciding what questions will get prioritized. It is maybe even more important as the number of votes.
Neo ( 2014-02-01 15:46:45 +0200 )editI can't really decide if this is a problem or not. On the one hand, an edit may change the question in an essential way so that people may want to take another look at it. On the other hand, an empty edit just to bump up a question is not desirable.
jsiren ( 2014-02-01 16:04:09 +0200 )edit@Neo Using the votes/view ratio isn't necessarily a good idea... Commented questions gather a lot of views, lowering the ratio. Also, the ratio could be lowered in purpose with just opening the question several times.
simo ( 2014-02-01 16:07:32 +0200 )edit@simo I thought that one question gets one view per user, no matter how many times that user views the same question. This is why I favoured this ratio. If this is not the case, then you are absolutely right.
Neo ( 2014-02-01 16:17:57 +0200 )edit@jsiren I agree - but e.g. just changing the default front page doesn't prevent using "Sort by Activity" to get another look you mentioned. Currently, now that the activity page is the front page, ppl seems to vote mostly on those questions.
simo ( 2014-02-01 18:18:44 +0200 )edit