Originally Posted by
JonNYC
Respectfully-- about your math....
The difference between [50% in favor to 50% opposed] to [59% in favor to 39% opposed] sure isn't 9%
Not defending the math, but it is possible to view it like this:
In a group of 100 people, 50 voted against and 50 for in the first vote. In the second vote, 9 people "changed sides" and thus the second vote resulted 59-41. That is the way I read the "9% change" comment.
Originally Posted by
HansGolden
What I was trying to say tactfully is that it's pretty hard to be a good TB member and ignore this turnout and 60/38 vote split. Furthermore, history is not on the side of those against the Like button. It's clearly been massively successful in a wide range of applications. It's crowdsourcing at its finest.
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The bottom line, IMO, is that Likes are a massively helpful innovation that helps quality content rise to the top (SlickDeals, a similar forum, does an outstanding job with this) via rewarding quality work (through reputation scoring) and via curation. Furthermore, a clear majority of FTers wants it.
Can you give some examples on how voting systems helped/improved
discussion boards? I don't see slickdeals as a site very similar to flyertalk.
And again, how is a poll with 700 votes out of a population of 500 000+ members, where you have no information of the statistical selection of voters, a clear indicator of the whole population?