Out of the 37,000 people who voted for posts or comments in the last month, the 10 most prolific voters (0.02% of us) cast as many votes as the bottom 59%. Here’s how that looks, visually:
As you can see, a lot of people didn’t cast many votes. Someone cast 23k votes, with a group of 13 each casting at least 10k votes.
“But of course most people aren’t really engaged, most of those 37k people are just NPCs who don’t really matter” you say, “Rimu you’re just including them to make it seem worse than it is”, you might say. Ok, cool, let’s pretend the bottom 85% of us don’t matter and just look at the top 5000 voters. Here’s how the distribution looks among them:
Still super unbalanced. Let’s analyze this a bit.
Among those 5000, the top 147 (2.94%) cast as many votes as all the others (4853 people) combined. Among those 5000, the average number of votes cast in a month is 1142. Among the top 147, the average number of votes cast in a month is 6868.
How do you feel about a tiny group having this much influence over what news you receive?
I’m a week late to this discussion but, Piefed doesn’t have algorithmic sorting like Reddit, so does it matter? After reading most comments in this thread, it seems like most people (myself included) sort their main feeds by Subscribed/New. Occasionally I will also sort by Popular/New or Popular/Hot just to see what’s ticking in communities I don’t subscribe to.
Respectfully, I don’t think this is a great idea, Rimu. The 240 number seems arbitrary and personally, I do not feel as if I am being manipulated, or influenced on this platform by someone who happens to upvote a bunch.