Timeline for The Association Bonus
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| Jul 18, 2020 at 22:20 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | FWIW in Math.SE we have a zero participation user who has voted 57000 times. All upvotes, I dare not speculate what kind of posts are the benficiaries :-/ | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 18:30 | comment | added | user9072 | I think doing it like this could have a quite unwanted side effect. In my mind an advantage of this association thing is that people do not need to try to "get some points" to somewhat use the site; this might prevent some not-so-good questions (or still worse answers) that otherwise might be made to this end. Now, perhaps this would not be that frequent. But if you give somebody 20 votes so they get somewhat in the habit of voting here, and they used them up, then I would assume not few will just ask something. (Also they wil suceed, 15 points is not much.) | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 17:55 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | The "hot question" issue is separate in my mind. It's a known problem for all sites that I'm pretty confident is on SE's "to fix" list (though I doubt it's very high on that list). | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 17:43 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | That might be better than the status quo, but it would have the disadvantage of signaling that MO is indeed open to voting by non-participants, just not too often (and it wouldn't help at all in the case that question goes viral and attracts lots of random people, like the batman question on MSE). | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 17:12 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |