<p>Is there a rich get richer phenomenon on CV and can we do something about it?</p>

<p>I have a feeling that we, as a community (including myself), have a bias in up-voting, so that high-reputation users are more prone to get up-voted then low-reputation users. It would be interesting to see that empirically using our data, but I don't have any good idea for testing it right now (maybe you have?). Nonetheless, it seems for me that the bias exists. For example, if there are two identical answers, then the one by high-reputation user tends to get more up-votes. The same with questions (recall e.g. short questions by high-reputation users, or long and complicated ones -- those are the kinds that are often ignored if posted by newcomers).</p>

<p>Can we do something to diversify our voting and encourage the new users?</p>
