Originally Posted by
kipper
I think the reluctance to try it in OMNI/PR is perhaps because it would, most likely, not be used in the spirit it was intended there, and would cause problems, thus making it less likely to be implemented elsewhere on FT.
Sure, it's going to work like this:
OMNICon: Obama is bad!
--> OmniCon2, OmniCon3, OmniCon4 like this post.
OMNILib: Bush is bad!
--> OmniLib2, OmniLib3, OmniLib4 like this post.
OMNILibertarian: You're all statists!
--> OmniLibertariane likes this post.
...but beyond being pointless, so what? Seriously, what problems would that cause?
(In the best case, it might actually reduce some of the less-substantive echo chamber posts, and just lead to likes on the other guy who said it first.)
Originally Posted by
lin821
It's a fact FT now has 580,319 members. With 712 voters so far in this poll (which is only 0.123% of FTers), no one can claim the majority of FTers have spoken, no matter what the result is.
How many of those users are active monthly, or daily? How many of those users have no posts, or 10 or fewer posts? Does IB ever purge old users?
From experience with other similar-but-smaller systems, the real "active user" population is going to be vastly smaller than the historical total number of signups.
The fact that we've now got nearly twice as many votes as the talkboard election got suggests that there's a great deal of interest in this issue, beyond simply a core of FT insiders.