Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Gaming the system, is there a way to have both useful ratings and conversion of readers to editors?/reply

You'll always have this kind of rating bias in the data -- one common way to deal with it is to apply smarter algorithms, e.g. to predict individual rater reliability based on past rating behavior.

We've now also started digging more seriously into alternative models for feedback systems that we'll want to experiment with. We've established a contract with Fabrice Florin (of newstrust.net) as product development consultant for this purpose, and you can see some wireframes and ideas in his October 10 presentation. I've encouraged Fabrice to start posting here as well.