Solutions to the Mahalo Answers voting system - Vote Weight
100% - who posed the question
80% - black belt
60% - brown belt
40% - purple belt
20% - green belt
10% - yellow belt
Thoughts?
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M$6 Answers
This is an area that I feel strongly about. Helpfulness appears as a metric on our profiles and influences answer placement, but I don't believe sufficient guidance has been provided on how members should use the feature.
Here are some of my thoughts:
- Mahalo should establish and communicate the intent/definition of this feature.
- Jason has said they are keeping tabs on folks' use of the feature, but without appropriate guidelines (or even suggestions) for use, how can users be held accountable? (Like when they think they are voting Digg style.)
- In an answer somewhere, I read that the belt levels will be changing soon to upper and lower belts. Maybe when that happens, a weighting system may work well.
- In the current belt system, I'm not confident that a person's ability to rack up points makeshim/her more capable of determining if an answer is helpful or not.
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M$
Below would be how it would work:
100% - who posed the question (allowed 5 extra per day for this question only)
80% - black belt (allowed 25 per day)
60% - brown belt (allowed 20 per day)
40% - purple belt (allowed 15 per day)
20% - green belt (allowed 10 per day)
10% - yellow belt (allowed 5 per day)
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I also think the asker should have a system of ranking the answers so that it's not just best and all the others. But maybe a top 3 or top 2 and the best.
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2. I don't agree with someone else's vote being worth more than mine, especially since there are plenty of topics that I feel I was better equipped to make input on even when I was a yellow belt just a month ago.
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