If the weighting formula is known, I'm going to think twice before casting my second vote of the day. And it only takes one person to reverse-engineer it.
That might not be a bad thing. I'm just saying it works against your goal of getting people to vote as many times as possible.
You owe it to yourself to at least study Slashdot's system before putting too much thought into creative UX, dark patterns, and complex weighting. It isn't the last word in comment scoring, but as someone else pointed out, you could probably fill a book with all the lessons that shaped it.
That might not be a bad thing. I'm just saying it works against your goal of getting people to vote as many times as possible.
You owe it to yourself to at least study Slashdot's system before putting too much thought into creative UX, dark patterns, and complex weighting. It isn't the last word in comment scoring, but as someone else pointed out, you could probably fill a book with all the lessons that shaped it.