Comment by dang
5 years ago
I don't think AI has good enough taste yet. The best possibility I know of is giving users a higher-signal (than upvoting) way to single out a post that they think is particularly good. This would be like flagging, but for good things rather than bad. Actually, that was our intention when we created the 'favorites' feature and made favorites public—but it didn't work out that way, so maybe this is harder than it sounds.
There's a bit more discussion about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157675.
Super interesting, thanks. Have you considered limiting the amount of votes a user can cast per hour or day or week? I guess they would get more on the reflective side if they're dealing with something perceived as a limited resource, making vote itself that higher signal.