Timeline for If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites
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| Sep 25, 2023 at 6:23 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | Agreed, one vote per person in an election, and everyone has the right to vote regardless of beliefs etc. in a true democracy. But SE is not an election, nor is it a political system. The right to vote has to be earned through reputation. It's a privilege. I'm simply proposing an extension of a system that's already in use. Multiple voting is only fraudulent if one is gaming the system (i.e. breaking the rules). Also, answers with inflated votes are far more likely to occur because of the Hotlist. I'm not saying my idea is perfect, but it may improve things a little. | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 0:44 | comment | added | Ken White | No, voting twice is voting twice. You're allowed a limited number of votes per election (one), and you're allowed a single vote per question/answer here for the same reason. Allowing multiple votes is fraudulent, because it allows a question's (or answer's) value to the site to be inflated. It also would defeat the entire meaning of the voting system here. The idea of fraudulently inflating value is no different than fraudulently putting an individual into public office because they have friends who can vote multiple times. | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 0:34 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | @KenWhite Err, a misleading analogy I think. High rep users have demonstrated an ability to ask and / or answer questions well. Voting multiple times demonstrates only that one can find one's way to the polling booth. Still, I appreciate your feedback (and any other downsides to this proposal would be welcome). | |
| Sep 24, 2023 at 22:05 | comment | added | Ken White | This makes no more sense than allowing a certain class of people (for instance, those who had voted consecutively in the past 5 Presidential elections) to vote more than once for candidates they feel are twice as good as the others. | |
| Sep 24, 2023 at 3:35 | history | answered | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |