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According to SE philosophy, reputation shows the amount of participation and not the knowledge. Still, though the use case you described is useful sometimes, it's a too small benefit to counter the bad effects of influenced voting.
– iammilind
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 6:16
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@iammilind Do you have a source with that?
– Mast
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 8:58
@Mast, most answers in this post.
– iammilind
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:16
@iammilind Thank you, but I meant the latter part of your statement. "though the use case you described is useful sometimes, it's a too small benefit to counter the bad effects of influenced voting." Why do you think the benefit described is too small to counter the bad effects of influenced voting? Do you have numbers or other data on the amount of influenced voting and on the benefit described? After all, how should they be compared?
– Mast
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:19
@Mast, it's a general observation for which I can't provide data. But it's easily noticed across the community. Countering the use case, many a times a known & trusted user may not answer the question I want to know. Many times, more upvoted answer's author has less reputation than other. In these majority cases, the reputation of the user is not helping me. But all the posts are candidate for influenced voting.
– iammilind
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:25
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@iammilind So it's a gut feeling you have, not an actual measurement you've taken?
– Mast
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:27
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@iammilind your question and many of your comments continue to assert your viewpoint; this is your post, so it's up to you to support your premise. You've added the feature-request tag and you are asking that almost 200 stack exchange sites operate differently for its millions of users. If you can't convincingly demonstrate to a chunk of the SE community that there is a need, then a feature request will not be taken seriously.
– uhoh
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:45
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@iammilind I'm not making the claims here, I'm just asking you to source yours.
– Mast
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:46
@Mast, uhoh the observation cannot be proven by statistics in certain cases. I don't know how to make a DB query which shows "Posts with lower rep users got more votes than higher rep users". Regarding the use case you based your answer on, can easily be resolved by voting based display as suggested in feature. Finally If you deny the fact that, voting is not biased by a user's reputation then our discussion may not churn out anything useful.
– iammilind
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 9:57
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@iammilind You keep talking about facts, but fail to make a case for those facts. You can think it's a fact, but unless you got proof, there is no fact. Just a suspicion.
– Mast
Commented Dec 24, 2019 at 11:44

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