Timeline for Should sites provide mechanisms for detecting and then reversing the meta effect?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2023 at 9:04 | comment | added | Marijn | Some posts do continue to receive votes of course (up or down) but I think that is an exception. For the average post by the average user voting stops soon after posting, maybe they will attract an occasional vote or two afterwards but certainly not in the amounts that the meta effect causes within one day. | |
| Sep 2, 2023 at 8:50 | comment | added | Robert Longson | @Marijn I know posts continue to accumulate votes over years, because mine do. The most useful ones end up with hundreds of votes. | |
| Sep 2, 2023 at 8:44 | comment | added | Marijn | You get the same outcome that is not true, without the meta effect the reaction stops early, so to speak. given the value of the post is also questionable, with the meta effect a post could be -20 or so while the 'real' value is closer to, say, -3 (which it would have gotten, as a final outcome, without the meta effect). I think the voting system implicitly takes into account that questions in general attract an average number of views and an average level of scrutiny/strictness from the people that view the question. The meta effect invalidates both of these assumptions. | |
| Aug 31, 2023 at 16:48 | history | answered | Robert Longson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |