Reputation doesn't correspond to technical correctness.

For purely technical questions, I'm not so sure about that anymore. Sure, the earlier replies tend to get more votes, but replies that are technically wrong do tend to much lower (to the point often of going negative) reputation. If I'm a beginner faced with a bunch of options, and don't have the time to try all of them, then focusing a few of the higher reputation options is a good strategy.

The best way to judge a node's content is to see if it works. Nothing will ever change that.

On an ideal world, that's true. On an ideal world, one would have all the time one needs to try out each and every reply to see which was best.

You can already order replies by reputation.

Until you mentioned it (and I went looking), I didn't know about this feature. I wonder if newbies will notice it.

In reply to Re: Re: A case for neutral votes by dws
in thread A case for neutral votes by dws

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