Timeline for Proposal for an alternative order for answers
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Any choice has its own consequences. I believe the default sort is by votes since visitors need to see the apparently more correct and useful content. And this leads to encouraging Fastest Gun In The West and discouraging later answers, as you say. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 20:34 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 23, 2015 at 13:09 | comment | added | user31729 | @clemens: I know about this 'agree/disagree' voting ... I disagree with this ;-) | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 9:10 | comment | added | user4686 | @clemens I didn't know you could set it to active by default for your own visits to the site, thanks for pointing it out. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 8:58 | comment | added | cgnieder | I have answered sorted active and I tend to forget that this is not the default… | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 8:56 | history | edited | Thomas OrozcoStaff |
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| Oct 23, 2015 at 8:56 | comment | added | cgnieder | @ChristianHupfer on meta a vote usually means I agree and a downvote I disagree. It doesn't says necessarily anything about the quality of the question. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 8:56 | answer | added | Thomas OrozcoStaff | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | user4686 | @ChristianHupfer there is already a (discrete but yet quite visible) "active" button, and also "oldest" next to "votes". Thus I can not pretend that stackexchange has no such offer. But I am afraid it is deeply ingrained that "most voted answers climb to the top", and that this mechanism is so consubstantial to stackexchange that it is most unlikely to be demoted anytime soon. Imagine a minute Facebook dropping the notion of so-called "Friends", and you get an analogy. | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 20:28 | comment | added | user31729 | I don't hope so, but in fact, it might be a question for Meta.SX in total, since the technical details would be the same for all SX sites, I assume | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 20:04 | comment | added | user4686 | @ChristianHupfer the vagaries of democracy I guess; too much democracy borders on demagogy, and sites like stackexchange to some extent blossom upon this. (this comment will perhaps bring more downvotes...) | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | user31729 | Who downvoted this? This is a decent question!!! | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 15:27 | history | asked | user4686 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |