I also agree with the spirit of this, but I think dividing upvotes by the number of reads penalizes reads excessively, because each reader doesn’t decide how to vote independently. Once a post already has a high score, a new reader is not likely to upvote it more even if they think it’s high quality. Also we ought to encourage people to create highly popular articles that spread our ideas beyond the local community, and this system would serve to discourage that. On the other hand we also don’t want to penalize people for writing specialized content that only a few others might read. I’m not sure what the right solution is here.
I also agree with the spirit of this, but I think dividing upvotes by the number of reads penalizes reads excessively, because each reader doesn’t decide how to vote independently. Once a post already has a high score, a new reader is not likely to upvote it more even if they think it’s high quality. Also we ought to encourage people to create highly popular articles that spread our ideas beyond the local community, and this system would serve to discourage that. On the other hand we also don’t want to penalize people for writing specialized content that only a few others might read. I’m not sure what the right solution is here.