Politics is inherently highly controversial, is what I meant. And on forums like this, even a slight majority is enough to suppress the other.
After all, think about it: if you have 5000 rabid A voters and 4900 rabid B voters, every pro A comment will be at +100 and every pro B comment will be at -100 even if everyone participates. True approval will be slightly above 49% for B comments but will end up appearing to be massive disapproval.
That's a structural problem with additive/subtractive vote counts.
After all, think about it: if you have 5000 rabid A voters and 4900 rabid B voters, every pro A comment will be at +100 and every pro B comment will be at -100 even if everyone participates. True approval will be slightly above 49% for B comments but will end up appearing to be massive disapproval.
That's a structural problem with additive/subtractive vote counts.