Do all votes count equally?
I've been reading through the FAQ and to me it's not clear if XP is a more arbitrary value. I understand that a very low score will basically shadowban the account, but I'm unsure if people with higher scores have more weight to their votes than people with average scores or if XP is just an arbitrary achievement feelgood variable.
I bring this up because as with a lot of people I'm looking for a new place to share and gather information from across the web. While there's a lot of discussion on censorship from power mods on reddit, I remember when we all left Digg due to their problems with power users; a core group of users that had massive influence tied to their accounts and could dictate what was being discussed. Or corporate shills juicing their own accounts so they could dictate what was on the front page.
I left Digg as reddit held a promise that every user has equal say on what is being discussed. I believe they are not holding to that promise, but for different reasons, moderator censorship. I wonder if Snapzu can hold to that promise itself. Can anyone clarify?
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Here it goes... All votes DO count equally (I had the same concerns), and thus higher level users do not get a stronger voting presence. I figure one of your additional concerns is that users with a larger following may have an unfair advantage over those who do not because their posts can more easily reach the front page due to followers up voting (again the power user problem), luckily there is also a built in solution to that.
The front page as well as tribe pages use a source limit approach to taking the up vs down vote score and converting it into a value that is then converted based on a number of factors into a dynamic, constantly updating trending score. With this approach votes generated from all user feeds ultimately count far less than votes generated from direct tribe or snap voting. This way, power users still enjoy many perks but don't have that ultimate power in collectively deciding what makes it to the front page. I think as Snapzu grows more will be done to assure things remain fair.
Great reply to a fairly common question
Thanks for this
So my understanding is that you need to be a member of a tribe, or vote on a popular article, to have a full vote on content posted there? I don't think this is too unreasonable, rather smart actually, after all you can't vote on items unless you're a member of Snapzu (or reddit, or voat, etc...)
Exactly, and if you're not a member of that particular tribe you can still vote but it wont hold as much weight. It's a bit complex, but because all of this is done in the background it works great and isn't in your face.
in relation to power users and the downfall of digg/reddit, one thing that snapzu does that helps is the ability to post one snap to multiple tribes without reposting it 5+ times to different subreddits. Also, immediately after you post a snap, you can see in the similar snaps whether you are reposting or not.