I understand that Slashdot likes to send the top 10 highest scored posts. But there were a LOT of Score:5 posts.
Why not change the rule to "Top 10 highest scored posts, or all score:5 posts, whichever is larger"?
That way there won't be conspiracy theory behind which posts you choose, and you let the slashdot population hear all the answers they thought were important.
Honestly, I don't think the person answering the questions wouldn't mind more questions (although, there were like 20+ score:5 posts), but you can always say "answer the questions you like, combine some, and skip some if you like", that way its the answerer that can pick and choose.
Or perhaps the max score of 5 is inadequete for this puropose. It makes some sense for normal posts, but for question proposals we need more differentiation. As you said, we get so many +5
posts that the decision of which to put forth ends up being the editor's call rather than based on user votes like it was intended to be.
Perhaps the right thing to do is to retain the real score for these posts, but still cap it at 5 for the sake of calculating the poster's Karma.
Top 10 (Score:2, Redundant)
Why not change the rule to "Top 10 highest scored posts, or all score:5 posts, whichever is larger"?
That way there won't be conspiracy theory behind which posts you choose, and you let the slashdot population hear all the answers they thought were important.
Honestly, I don't think the person answering the questions wouldn't mind more questions (although, there were like 20+ score:5 posts), but you can always say "answer the questions you like, combine some, and skip some if you like", that way its the answerer that can pick and choose.
Just an suggestion...
Re:Top 10 (Score:2)
Perhaps the right thing to do is to retain the real score for these posts, but still cap it at 5 for the sake of calculating the poster's Karma.