squishy wrote:While on a long approach my partner and I were talking about the silly voting system on SP and I had to explain how it worked. I had a good idea...check this out...
Everyone knows how we vote (except for the select few rebels) and normally people will vote 10 or not at all, the ratings seem to work out and good content flows to the top effectively. To avoid long explanations and the few posts a year asking why it's this way, why not just turn it into a "like or dislike" button? then the vote counts as 10 or not at all...or better yet, change the voting so if a vote is under 5 it's nothing and if it's over 5 then it's ten. I doubt people would even notice...
This is known as approval voting, and I agree that it would work well in the SP environment. We don't really care whether I like the Rainier page more than the Whitney page, we just want to know how many people find each page helpful.
It would be good to have a mechanism for finding lousy pages that need adoption or deletion, but the forums seem to do that pretty well. The official system based on votes is silly.