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62I really like this idea - partly because I only upvote when the answer seems lower than it should be. With votes not visible for the question's first appearance on hte homepage (until it falls off, maybe?) you'll get a much more interesting, and possibly truthier, voting.– PollyannaCommented Sep 12, 2008 at 2:20
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sounds really complicated -- will people understand what's happening?– Jeff AtwoodCommented Sep 12, 2008 at 8:40
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3Jeff, I think if you add some visual clues or simply descriptive text on question page, people will understand. IMO it's not that complicated.– akuCommented Sep 12, 2008 at 8:50
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Agreed. See my updates to the post addressing Jeff's objections.– Justin StandardCommented Sep 12, 2008 at 18:02
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5I like this idea - except. It doesn't yet address the problem where a good answer is added a long time after the question is no longer hot.– Richard CordenCommented Sep 19, 2008 at 13:28
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13Disallow marking an answer as "correct" during the grace period as well. This increases the chance that the "correct" answer isn't just "the best answer to arrive in the first 10 minutes." I envision a secret-voting period of, say, an hour, but the editing grace period is 10 minutes -- too short.– Rob KennedyCommented Dec 10, 2008 at 17:00
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@Rob I like your idea. It encourages the questioner to return back to the site and accept an answer. But it also have a risk of questions with no accepted answers.– blntechieCommented May 28, 2010 at 6:49
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6@blntechie we already have lots of questions with no accepted answers– jcolebrandCommented Dec 22, 2010 at 14:27
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6I think this is a great idea. @Jeff any chance of this being considered?– David TangCommented Feb 3, 2011 at 23:55
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2@box9 we already show answers randomly by vote, so the important part of this is implemented. The rest, well, it's been 2 years.. so.. :)– Jeff Atwood StaffModCommented Feb 4, 2011 at 0:13
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45@Jeff, true, but I don't see the random sorting feature really getting to the meat of the problem. The secret voting idea (with the banner), however, will really encourage people to vote more and more objectively.– David TangCommented Feb 4, 2011 at 0:18
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7Another +1 for hiding votes for a period. The clock should start when the first answer is posted, not when the question is posed. The problem with random display of equal weight votes is that the first and likely incomplete answer will get an up vote and then subsequent ones will all randomly sort after the first one. Then the first one, with it's one vote keeping it first, can be edited into a better answer.– Josh HeitzmanCommented Nov 14, 2012 at 4:58
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6Why hasn't this been implemented?– canadianerCommented Jan 1, 2015 at 19:55
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7This would make people look at votes without the huge bias of say +7 or -3 next to it. They would evaluate the answers themselves for quality. Perhaps in general there could be an option to hide votes by default and show them on a click.– intcreatorCommented Aug 1, 2015 at 1:21
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4I like this idea, but I have a few suggestions to improve it. First of all, I think that users should always be able to see all votes on their own answers. Second of all, during the grace period, I suggest that answers can be sorted from newest to oldest, so that each answer gets a lot of attention right after it's posted, and therefore all answers get about as much attention.– Donald Duck is with UkraineCommented Oct 2, 2017 at 14:48
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