Sonpansatan Posted:

IMO, the danger isn’t that of random voting, it’s about 10 or so people systematically down-voting everyone’s submission except for theirs. Just a few sweeps a day could kill a lot of submissions before they can get off the ground. They don’t even have to be in cahoots, just douchebags.

Systematic downvoting is taken into account. Random voting isn’t – the “random” element is merely a probability. Say you have 100 systematic downvoters, 100 people who genuinely dislike an idea, 250 people who genuinely like it, and 50 systematic upvoters. Then if you pick any voter at random, they have a 60% chance to have voted up and a 40% chance to have voted down. The voting isn’t random, but the voter is.

However, data suggests that there are a lot more systematic downvoters active on Sunday than on Monday. This is NOT taken into account. If anyone wants to calculate this, please do.