Timeline for Should the default answers sorting be changed?
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| Jun 6, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @kos You don't propose a solution you simply state there's a problem. Hate to say it but I don't think anyone's going to put time or effort into an alternative, so you may have to propose a solution yourself. Or move it to meta.se? | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 14:25 | comment | added | kos | @ThomasW. I will, probably I should rephrase everything, anyway to sum up what I think overall is that not always best answers end up being at the top somehow, and that I think that sorting this way doesn't help | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 14:21 | comment | added | kos | @ThomasW. [cont...] , but I think that this is also due to the fact that not everyone goes through all the answers when visiting a question, and I think that sorting in a different way, for example, might help to make all of the answers being visited (roughly) the same number of time over time, mitigating what I suspect being the average user's behavior, on which of course I might be wrong. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 14:17 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @kos add that clarification to your question ;) | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | kos |
@ThomasW. Being more explicit (sorry for the confusion), that answer (the second one) should be the before the above awk answer which is far more complicated, but it's after because it has been posted later, and sometimes (maybe not in this case, but think of say a third answer addedd to an old question on which the first and the second answers have tons of upvotes) this is likely to stay as it is. Of course being a good first answer having been present from more it will usually always have more upvotes of a newer one because of that, [cont...]
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| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | I fail to see how that factors into your logic though. You say sorting by votes count brings first posts up higher, but if the later posts are better you have more votes, and an Accept beats all. I fail to see your logic on this as a result. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | kos | @ThomasW. Precisely what I mean is that sometimes there's disproportion between upvotes given to first answers and upvotes given to equally good later answers; briefly searching my top answers this shows up and it's upvoted 10 times, but if that answer deserves 10 upvotes this answer in my opinion does as well | |
| Jun 4, 2015 at 12:04 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | Actually votes count won't always show the First Answer. I have several answers that were not the first answers and have far more votes than the first answer, and in some cases got me rep bounties. Where do you base your 'first post gets most votes' on? | |
| May 31, 2015 at 15:16 | history | edited | kos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2015 at 15:05 | history | edited | kos |
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| May 31, 2015 at 15:05 | comment | added | kos | @Seth Yes, I agree with that, to be honest I posted this question mostly to bring the topic up. I agree with the fact that for the users of the answers this is not good. I hope someone can come up with a better solution | |
| May 31, 2015 at 14:57 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Umm, the whole point of voting is to show the best answers at the top. | |
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| May 31, 2015 at 13:30 | history | asked | kos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |