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Popularity based on the percentage of promotes

Submitted by icecone on June 12, 2008 to Website suggestion

A suggestion with 200 promotes and 50 demotes does not actually mean it's popular, and one with 30 promotes and no demotes should be more popular, but probability its just less read.

Add a way to sort the submissions based on the percentage of promotes.
Of course, in order to avoid having those with 1 votes being counted as 100%, filter out those with less than 10 (or 20) votes when sorted this way.

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Discussion (5 comments)

bwilson wrote on June 12, 2008, 11:28pm

Long needs to see this post. I'm linking to it in a new comment on his last post. I have a suggestion that has 31+ and 3-. http://www.aerotaskforce.com/view/106 It is about the "Save as" menu and background scrolling, but it's mired back on page 7 or so. I agree with you entirely. If Microsoft employees are actually looking at this site, Long needs to organize it as best he can so that Microsoft employees can help us the best they can.

mrmckeb wrote on June 13, 2008, 4:20am

I hate to be rude, but it sounds like you guys aren't happy because your ideas (or ideas you like most) aren't entirely popular. Nobody likes people disagreeing with them.

However, think about this scenario:
There is an suggestion that I don't agree with - but it has 30 votes, so would I demote it when it's already got such a low amount of votes? No! On the other hand, if something is really popular and I think it is undeserving of such popularity, I would vote it down.

Understand what I'm saying? The best system is in place now.

longzheng wrote on June 13, 2008, 4:57am

@icecone and @bwilson: Your suggestion is entirely valid, but I think you're forgetting something. If we go with the percentage idea, then a submission with 40 promotes and 20 demotes is equivalent to a submissions with 2 promotes and 1 demote. That doesn't sound very fair at all.

On top of just indicating which way opinions are swayed, ratings provides more weighting on how many people are behind the sway. This way, if a submission is extremely popular, then it should in fact have a huge number of promotes.

longzheng wrote on June 13, 2008, 4:58am

Changed status from [Not fixed] to [Rejected]

.Chris wrote on August 20, 2008, 7:36pm

stupid idea

-1 DEMTOTE

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