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Will disabling the upvote button on the front page cause people to read the article first, or read the comments first and make a better decision about there upvoteabilities?
> Will disabling the upvote button on the front page cause people to read the article first, or read the comments first and make a better decision about there [sic] upvoteabilities?
s/there/their/
That would essentially disable voting. I think they call that a draconian solution.
It's important to recognize that any method open to public votes can be played. When you see two or three posts with the same origin suddenly and inexplicably rise to the top of the rankings for some reason other than their obvious worth, you see the role played by gaming the system -- and that's a common occurrence. > Will disabling the upvote button on the front page cause people to read the article first, or read…
It's important to recognize that any method open to public votes can be played. When you see two or three posts with the same origin suddenly and inexplicably rise to the top of the rankings for some reason other than their obvious worth, you see the role played by gaming the system -- and that's a common occurrence. > Will disabling the upvote button on the front page cause people to read the article first, or read…
Would it essentially disable it, or just reduce the points stories get drastically? I think only allowing voting within the comment page would make it more likely that votes would be on content (or up-voted summaries in the comment page, at least) instead of the headline. If this affected all submissions, would that be a bad thing?
Maybe. And maybe someone intent on playing the system would simply move to the comment page and upvote there.
C'est la vie
Of course subject matter, headline, other people's comments make a difference, but I doubt there is a significant blind upvoting of something that hits the front page.
I think it is however a good suggestion - simply an invisible reminder that we put content first. I like it.