I was actually going to suggest just this, Kåre!  Another way to handle
it, or perhaps an additional way, would be give a user's votes a certain
amount of weight proportionate to the number of sessions they voted on.
So if they evaluated all of them and voted, 100% of their vote gets
counted.  If they evaluated half, 50%, and so on?  Not sure if this is
worth the effort, but I know it's worked for various camps that I've been
to which fall prey to the same problem.

Sincerely,
Katherine

On 12/1/11 6:55 AM, "Kåre Fiedler Christiansen" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Michael B. Klein
>
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>> In any case, I'm interested to see how effective this current "call
>> for
>> support" is.
>
>Me too!
>
>Could someone with access to the voting data perhaps anonymously pull out
>how many voters have given points to only a single talk or two?
>
>If the problem is indeed real, perhaps simply stating on the page that
>you are expected to evaluate _all_ proposals, and not just vote up a
>single talk, would help the issue? It might turn away some of the "wrong
>voters". Requiring to give out at least, say, 10 points, could be perhaps
>be a way to enforce some participation?
>
>Best,
>  Kåre