Only if you believe that number of upvotes on a single post maps to some kind of objective "quality."
It does. Getting many upvotes from many posts just means you post a lot. Can you believe that
I have 11 upvotes? It's quite surprising even to me.
We had at the time confirmation that Jack's suggestion was impossible to implement and have had more since.
... so? Please re-read my first post. You'll see that it was pretty clearly an "if they'll do manage to make this kind of complex changes" scenario, thus still a part of Jack's idea.
We haven't had such confirmation about yours so if it were to exist it would do so without Jack's.
Dunno about you but to me it's pretty obvious that my idea is at least slightly more complicated to implement than Jack's, so if anything, it would be his idea without mine.
Also, IIRC, we had confirmation about my idea in another thread (my thread and my suggestion, that's why I know), and it was pretty much the same reason. I assume that's also why Agita didn't address my first post here.
In my experience, the degree of smart/funny/helpfulness has much less to do with number of upvotes than its visibility. So all we'd know is who had the most people see their smart/funny/helpful post when they were in an upvoting mood.
That's unavoidable. And also a con of current system.
Why not provide both sets of information and let people decide for themselves which is more important?
I guess, if people wouldn't mind too much numbers under their avatar.
Yup.
I see. Interesting.