Dan is right in the sense that linear voting has issues. But he's wrong in that quadratic voting also has issues. Neither is a very good but until someone comes up with a better idea we're stuck with one or the other and thus far the devs have chosen to continue supporting linear as the least bad (in their opinion) option.
BTW, @mattclarke the problem with downvoting is much the same now with linear as it was with quadratic: For the most part nobody does it, and therefore whenever anyone does, it becomes a Huge Big Deal, personal attack, starting a war, throwing old ladies down the stairs, etc. If downvoting were much more common and not a Huge Big Deal, a lot of things about this platform would work much better. I don't know how to get there.
Solid point. Dan is clear on how we fucked things up by changing to linear voting.
Dan is right in the sense that linear voting has issues. But he's wrong in that quadratic voting also has issues. Neither is a very good but until someone comes up with a better idea we're stuck with one or the other and thus far the devs have chosen to continue supporting linear as the least bad (in their opinion) option.
BTW, @mattclarke the problem with downvoting is much the same now with linear as it was with quadratic: For the most part nobody does it, and therefore whenever anyone does, it becomes a Huge Big Deal, personal attack, starting a war, throwing old ladies down the stairs, etc. If downvoting were much more common and not a Huge Big Deal, a lot of things about this platform would work much better. I don't know how to get there.
We're still in beta.
What was done can be undone.