Scoopit – fair and balanced?

Why does this promotional post get rated in the Scoopit rankings when this promotional post already exists? (I previously did this related post)

Moreover – count the votes on the Scoopits – this has 9 votes, but 6 voters. This has 6 votes, and 3 voters.

Clearly Scoop members (e.g. althecat, graeme, scooper) get two votes a piece – are you upfront with this guys?

I’m not objecting (after all you seem to vote for my stuff :) as this addresses the dumb-masses-rule flaw in Digg, and elevates average article quality. and i beleive Scoopit is filling a gap in the market.

However – the system fails if the editors vote for the same story twice. Very Slashdot-esque.

While we are thinking of Slashdot though, how about a Slashdot-like system of giving non-scoopies the ability to have more (karma) votes? You can imagine a system where power editors who are demonstratively good (look at their results) at voting early for popular quality scoopits have the ability to cast up to say 5 votes on a story. Do this right and the scoop editors can sit back and watch the site run itself….

I’m going to press the Scoopit button now… <ducks>

Scoopit!