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I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about pos...
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2020-06-30T12:44:55Z (over 4 years ago)
added a third proposed import method
- I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about post quality, more Google hits to attract people to the site, and the ability to duplicate out many basic questions seems more valuable to the community.
If the concern is one of appearances when the average new post score being smaller than the average old post score, then perhaps we can scale all old scores down by a factor of 2 (or X, with X perhaps changing over time as this site grows).As a first order approximation, I'd propose bringing over any open post with an answer of score >=5 with all it's non-negatively scored components. At the same time maintain a list or location where people can submit links to specific questions to be brought over, to be processed [automatically] on a ~weekly basis.
- I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about post quality, more Google hits to attract people to the site, and the ability to duplicate out many basic questions seems more valuable to the community.
- If the concern is one of appearances when the average new post score being smaller than the average old post score, then perhaps we can scale all old scores down by a factor of 2 (or X, with X perhaps [retroactively] changing over time as this site grows).
- As a first order approximation, I'd propose bringing over any open post with an answer of score >=5 with all it's non-negatively scored components. At the same time maintain a list or location where people can submit links to specific questions to be brought over, to be processed [automatically] on a ~weekly basis.
- It would also be cool to have the ability to import on demand when voting a post as a duplicate of a stackexchange post. If enough votes go through then bring over the answers immediately. Otherwise we get answers like [this](https://judaism.codidact.com/questions/276409#answer-276411) which just resummarize what's on Mi Yodeya, itself usually a summary of primary sources. That doesn't seem like a constructive use of people's time.
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2020-06-29T19:48:01Z (over 4 years ago)
I don't see why we would throw out the old vote counts. If a few people gain a few extra points on a one time basis, that's not such a big deal. The advantage gained by having good signal about post quality, more Google hits to attract people to the site, and the ability to duplicate out many basic questions seems more valuable to the community. If the concern is one of appearances when the average new post score being smaller than the average old post score, then perhaps we can scale all old scores down by a factor of 2 (or X, with X perhaps changing over time as this site grows). As a first order approximation, I'd propose bringing over any open post with an answer of score >=5 with all it's non-negatively scored components. At the same time maintain a list or location where people can submit links to specific questions to be brought over, to be processed [automatically] on a ~weekly basis.