Timeline for Is a double popularity contest a bad idea?
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| Dec 5, 2016 at 16:24 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | I don't think the problem is with having two different criterion, but actually with the "silliest" answer. People here upvote based on how impressive/interesting the answer is. Good popularity contests are ones where naturally upvoted answers are the ones they are looking for. (However, because we generally vote the same way, you end up only having 1 popularity contest, not 2) | |
| Nov 26, 2016 at 14:35 | answer | added | redstarcoder | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 20:34 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | Even people who fully understand the intended winning criteria may not follow them. If someone really likes an answer and wants it to win, they have an incentive to also go and find it in the other challenge and up vote there rather than voting "honestly". | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 18:06 | answer | added | user45941 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 8:05 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | Since you ultimately can't control how people vote, I'm not sure these challenges would actually be all that different. Especially people who visit the challenge from other sites might not even read the challenge in full and just scroll through the answers to upvote things they like (and those votes can easily outweigh those from members of the community). | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 1:33 | history | asked | hildred | CC BY-SA 3.0 |