Hi @tobixen,
Yes, it's a valid point and we are all aware of the shortcomings of the voting system.
Currently StemQ will display answers by decreasing amount of netvotes which has clearly some drawbacks.
The only improvement that I can think of here is to back the project by a strong, well respected, curation team.
StemQ doesn't have that as of yet and so we are currently relying on other guilds, such as @steemstem and @curie, to help us upvoting quality content and in doing so raise the visibility of these contributions.
Building a strong community is currently the priority of the project and I believe that interesting developments will follow.
Thank you for checkout out for alternative answers. I hope others follow suit.
Thank you for your feedback.
I think filters might work. I'm. Not tech savvy, but if there is a way to allow for just votes that were done through the website to be displayed on the site (thus,
reducinghiding the bulk of auto upvotes people get from readers who aren't interested in science), it might go a long way to help.That way, only votes from people who are interested in the post counts..
It's really dicey though, because if I were a casual reader and i found something I'm interested in, I probably could just vote because I found it meaningful anyways, I don't have to use StemQ... But then again, without something like this in place, it would always seem like the more popular people are better at science than others (as will be reflected on the votes they accumulate).
Me, as an old-school conservative guy, I'm always for a nice, manual censorship :D
The filter is a simple and elegant solution
You see...
Posts that are out of scope can be flagged by an administrator.
That will cause the post to disappear from StemQ.
Of course, that's a measure of last resorts...
It was a joke >D