Voting for forum posts

matheus matheus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 14:59:44 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 14:33:43 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 21:40:15 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> Online voting is emotionally toxic and logically fallacious.
>
> You're wrong, like really wrong. If that were true, 
> [SO](https://stackoverflow.com) should be the pinnacle of 
> emotionally toxic and logically fallacious posts when it comes 
> to programming topics, but it's exactly the contrary: SO is one 
> of the best if not *the* best resource for programming 
> questions — and I'd claim it is because of their voting 
> system and not in spite of it.

Well I don't agree with this, SO voting system isn't that good at 
all. It was already debatable on HN and in different medias too.

For example, it's common to see that in different cases the most 
up voted answer is "not" the "best answer".

Matheus.


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