Graphing Question, Answer & Comment votes over time.

asked 2015-05-03 08:49:09 +0300

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updated 2015-05-06 13:16:35 +0300

Karma visualisation demonstrates how easily graphs can help.

tl;dr Please implement graphs of votes over time or point to the pages where this is already possible (if it is).

The benefits are that it may become easy to see the questions, answers and comments that prompt users to vote, and Questions marked Duplicate will be able to be overlaid or shown cumulatively on the same graph.

Overall, instant visual information saves time, is all-user empowering and relieves the need to wade through many lists as text. Lists make statistical patterns trivial to completely miss. Visual patterns enhance prose and add to metadata accessibility, with original data sources still available: computation-friendly number lists.

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Stop bumping your questions please. I doubt Jolla will ever provide data of that kind to any extend publicly, not even anonymised.

chemist ( 2015-05-06 17:33:48 +0300 )edit

Agreed @chemist, even nice questions shouldn't be updated like how it's been done here, just for the visibility. This is a general problem sometimes, to reduce it I opened this question to let people have some visibility on their most important Q's: https://together.jolla.com/question/91023/your-most-voted-questions-vote-per-view-count/ Maybe link this whenever seeing any "extra updates" on posts?

@rdmo You're welcome to add one of your questions, the most important for you, there as well.

simo ( 2015-05-06 23:46:40 +0300 )edit

@chemist: Quit your assumptions about why I edit my questions. Bumping has nothing to do with it. I'd rather get along with you so I ask you to give me a bit less heat over this noisy absolute trivia. I wouldn't post here if I didn't want to help Jolla get better at serving its customers.

Thank you.

@simo: I'll keep my questions in the same place, since to change a Question title forces me to change link names everywhere references have be used by other posts. Since Askbot doesn't have to change, my standards with regard to correction and update certainly don't either. I'm not being difficult deliberately, I just don't imagine having that much time to post and link all over the place and keep links updated (Askbot should do that).


If Jolla management is daft enough not to be much more smart about data visualisations that, to me, is shockingly short-sighted, but thanks @chemist for the heads up.

As for bumping my questions, that is not what I am doing at all. I edit my questions because the initial page content is most important, and adding comments with pertinent information instead of updating the question is an indulgence I do not presume to inflict on forum users, including myself.

That's what Jolla's current implementation of Askbot does. It has nothing to do with the intent and substantive content of most of my posts.

rdmo ( 2015-05-07 23:12:17 +0300 )edit

@rdmo you do not need to update any links as the question ID does not change askbot knows where to go. For data visualisation, I am pretty sure they have all data in nice graphs every monday, just not publicly available to their competitors. For bumping, your pattern of updating questions looks like bumping as for the frequent reader there is no obvious change in information!

chemist ( 2015-05-07 23:28:38 +0300 )edit

@rdmo Sorry, just my humble opinion, and only regarding this particular question

On linking questions to other questions: Askbot does keep all links up to dateeven after the topic gets edited. For example: https://together.jolla.com/question/937/glance-screen/ (the topic there has been edited later, but this original link still guides users correctly)

simo ( 2015-05-07 23:33:12 +0300 )edit