When discourse-voting is used for a time-limited event, like “submit your new product idea this week” or something like that, bandwagoning can be pretty hard.
Basically it means to hide most of the data (like votes, replies) from users during a contest so that each user can reply or vote as a neutral person. Otherwise there’s a chance that the people will start to participate in that competition and act according to other people’s activity rather than doing what their mind says.
I think the use of reddit as an ‘example’ confused me – this would only apply to polls, not topics, yes? I think the use of this in a poll is the best example.
Sorry to reincarnate this topic, but does anyone have any leads for something like this?
We run monthly competitions with entries (user topics) that users can vote on and would love to randomize the entries per-user in case some users don’t vote on all the topics / remove bias.
The issue with the voting as it stands now is that topics that are spammed with comments rise to the top and may get more attention/biased voting.