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Are people voting up more, now that they can vote down?

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I thought the top sponsored deals usually finished the day with 45-50 votes before downvoting became available(unless it was a really good one), and now deals are routinely finishing with upwards of 80 votes. Did the change motivate people to start voting more, or is this not an actual trend?

by stark
asked 10 months ago

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Yes. @snapster might have better numbers, but I'm pretty sure up voting has increased at least 25%. We're also seeing about a 80% up vote/20% down vote ratio.

shawnmiller
10 months ago

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@shawnmiller: The very sad thing is that some people seem to be voting things up in order to have the ability to vote things down.

shrdlu
10 months ago

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I think people are voting more just so they can vote down Netflix and Wootbot deals.

paigeorose92
10 months ago

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I am definitely seeing more votes on my deals.

ohcheri
10 months ago

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Oh, I had forgotten about that you can only down vote if you've voted up. I was thinking there was some weird psychological thing going on, but that skews the data bit.

stark
10 months ago

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