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man-man

Avatar: 156485 2010-01-24 16:36:14 -0500
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Separating submissions from voting would help… should remove the bandwagon effect since you can’t see what’s being upvoted before you submit. Would also take the pressure off on submitting early – you’ve got a few days before voting starts so there’s no need to rush.

Limiting up/down votes would stop rampant downvoting in its tracks, but would mean the filtering effect is less powerful on mediocre entries – the ones that sit in everyone’s maybe bucket because they’re not that good or all that terrible would just stay at a score of 1.

I’m also not so sure about the bucket system; putting an extra step into the voting process sounds like it might discourage lazy people from voting at all (possibly an upside) or lead to confusion from buildr noobs along the lines of “I put it in the no bucket, that didn’t count as downvoting?”.

Maybe trial it a step at a time – first separate submission time from voting time, then think about the rest.

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