My proposal is to give equal weight to all votes for some reasonable period of time (one minute, five minutes, whatever) which makes it possible to at least read the post before voting on it without being penalized for doing so. By rewarding specifically the first even if that occurs in seconds you strongly favor bots. Later votes would continue to have declining weight to reward those who first recognize the value of a post as well as (though by less) those who later endorse the earlier votes.
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very first post (or a few of the first) by enormously more than those who vote just a few second later. There is very little value there.@liondani. There is nothing to prevent voting after the 1-5 minute period, even 12-24 hours later, and it should still be rewarded. It just should no longer receive the "early voter" bonus that is intended to reward those who find new unrecognized posts. Once a post has already started to receive votes, it is no longer unrecognized. My proposal is just to stop rewarding the
A reasonable time ok BUT RANDOM.... else the bots will vote exactly after 1, 5 minutes or 10.... they will not care if a minority of users voted before them....
And I don't agree 1 and 5 minutes is reasonable in a 24 hour period... I find more reasonable 1-2 hours before the original voting power kicks-in. We want average users to have the opportunity to get better rewarded ... And average users are not logged in 24 hours a day to take advantage of 1 and 5 minutes windows... I mean average users will have a bigger selection and will vote with less pressure if they have more time to read the content before voting....
Look what happens now, we upvote most of posts because we read a nice title (because we are in hurry off course) and then we read the underlying content :)