how to read the vote chart
every card on the board has a chart of visitors' votes. four steps, one minute.
example drawing · not real data
the drawing needs javascript. the four steps below say the same thing.
- #1
each candle is one UTC day of visitors' votes.
a card on the feed shows the last 14 days; its post page shows 30.
- #2
it opens at the day before's close.
the chart is the card's running net: each day starts where the day before ended, so the last close is the card's net votes.
- #3
up to the high = follows; down to the low = fades and avoids.
the wick reaches up by that day's follows and down by its fades and avoids. the body is the day's net: teal and filled when it went up, amber and hollow when it went down.
- #4
these are votes. they don't track the price.
anonymous votes can be farmed (a cleared browser or a new network gets a new vote), so the counts are a signal of what visitors clicked, not a census of people. vote bursts are left out unless you include them.
example drawing · not real data
where the chart sits on a post
an example post 3
- 1the number between the arrows is the post's net votes: follows minus fades and avoids. it is the chart's last close.
- 2the strip under the name is the same chart, small: the last 14 UTC days.
- 3open the post for 30 days, each day's counts and the comments.