I have to modify my comments, because after toying around at wiki.answers.com the voting system doesn't work.
It's the same issue at Knol in general. I get over a thousand "views" a day of my knols and very very rarely does anyone "vote" my articles either up or down. There has been suspicion among knolians that those articles with a high vote count are some form of fraud (for example by creating a hundred accounts and voting with all of them).
So in order to use the whole idea of "the best articles get voted" to the top we'd need both a way to combat vote-fraud, and a way to intice readers to vote at all!
Will Johnson
The assumptions that support the use of such polls elsewhere do not hold with this: a. for true mass media, polling viewers on their views of news events, the assumption is that the number of readers is high and diverse enough to prevent manipulation b. for professional topics on professional lists or blogs, the assumption is that the resource is unknown except to the initiated c. for polls over Wikipedia questions, the assumption is that only regular editors will get involved at all, & that if it is an issue subject to votepacking, non-aligned editors will make a point to participate d. for political elections, that the view of the majority must be followed, whether for practical or ideological reasons, regardless of prejudice None of these are actually all that accurate assumptions, but , but they're better than the situation here.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:05 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
I have to modify my comments, because after toying around at wiki.answers.com the voting system doesn't work.
It's the same issue at Knol in general. I get over a thousand "views" a day of my knols and very very rarely does anyone "vote" my articles either up or down. There has been suspicion among knolians that those articles with a high vote count are some form of fraud (for example by creating a hundred accounts and voting with all of them).
So in order to use the whole idea of "the best articles get voted" to the top we'd need both a way to combat vote-fraud, and a way to intice readers to vote at all!
Will Johnson
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But your response sounds like "There's no problem".? And I just pointed out the problem.? Just go to wiki.answers.com for example, answer a few questions, then check back in a month.
Even though people read articles, they aren't voting. That's not the same as a poll, where you deliberately create a situation where the only "content" is the poll itself.
You could for example just create a "simple" vote where "If the person stays on this page for more than one minute that's a positive vote" and there are no negative votes.? If they stay put, they must be reading the article and at least that much interested.? It is possible, in some contexts (not all), to determine how long a person stays put.
Would that work as an up-vote ?? Remember these are not polls.? It's a determination of how popular the content is.
Will