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Vote counts as ratios? [duplicate]
Closed as duplicate by Monica Cellio on Feb 22, 2024 at 23:44
This question has been addressed elsewhere. See: Should we start displaying the score of a post instead of the raw votes?
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This is not meant to be a committed advocating or request of the following, but rather a conversation to analyze the possibilities and potential benefits and drawbacks.
What if the total score for a post was bounded in a small interval - either (-1,1), or possibly (0, 1) (or even [0, 1]).
There are some different mathematical functions one could use for this.
The main point might be to change from the kind of large-scale dynamics of, “this post has 66 upvotes; this one has -1”, to a kind of bounded ratio score, “0.97” is a generally positive score, which may yet fluctuate over time; whereas a 0.1 “needs improvement”.
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