Categories of Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

[Matsume]

I was going to do something like this except I was going to make a 'top 20' list of the most 'liked' questions. Maybe you could add a section to your list like that.

Although this might seem like a good idea at first, there are a couple of reasons why I haven't yet done this:

First off, I've come to realize that the likes are skewed primarily towards the posts in the beginning of the thread. The reasons being that most people likely only read the first few pages of that thread and like the posts they are intereste in but after seeing duplicate posts appear they probably tell themselves "hell no i'm not gunna read 20 more pages of duplicate posts" and just "post quick reply" with a question they have in mind. This also has the effect of making it such that duplicate posts are ever increasing in the latter pages of that thread.

The second reason I don't want to make such a post is that I fear doing so will only enforce the aforementioned bias. That is, by singling out the top 20 posts and letting everyone know "these are the most 'liked' posts in the thread" I fear that people will be further incited to "like" those posts (social/peer pressure) even though there may be more interesting posts they wish answered.

However, I may consider doing this in a few days given enough interest.

[Exn]

Although this might seem like a good idea at first, there are a couple of reasons why I haven't yet done this:

First off, I've come to realize that the likes are skewed primarily towards the posts in the beginning of the thread. The reasons being that most people likely only read the first few pages of that thread and like the posts they are intereste in but after seeing duplicate posts appear they probably tell themselves "hell no i'm not gunna read 20 more pages of duplicate posts" and just "post quick reply" with a question they have in mind. This also has the effect of making it such that duplicate posts are ever increasing in the latter pages of that thread.

The second reason I don't want to make such a post is that I fear doing so will only enforce the aforementioned bias. That is, by singling out the top 20 posts and letting everyone know "these are the most 'liked' posts in the thread" I fear that people will be further incited to "like" those posts (social/peer pressure) even though there may be more interesting posts they wish answered.

Good call.