I think people were happy to have the conversation happen. I did strong-downvote it, but I don’t think upvotes are the correct measure here. If we had something like agree/disagree-votes on posts, that would have been the right measure, and my guess is it would have overall been skewed pretty strongly into the disagree-vote diretion.
Out of curiosity, what’s the rationale for not having agree/disagree votes on posts? (I feel like pretty much everyone thinks it has been a great feature for comments!)
Yeah, the principled reason (though I am not like super confident of this) is that posts are almost always too big and have too many claims in them to make a single agree/disagree vote make sense. Inline reacts are the intended way for people to express agreement and disagreement on posts.
I am not super sure this is right, but I do want to avoid agreement/disagreement becoming disconnected from truth values, and I think applying them to elements that clearly don’t have a single truth value weakens that connection.
I think people were happy to have the conversation happen. I did strong-downvote it, but I don’t think upvotes are the correct measure here. If we had something like agree/disagree-votes on posts, that would have been the right measure, and my guess is it would have overall been skewed pretty strongly into the disagree-vote diretion.
Out of curiosity, what’s the rationale for not having agree/disagree votes on posts? (I feel like pretty much everyone thinks it has been a great feature for comments!)
I explained it a bit here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fjfWrKhEawwBGCTGs/a-simple-case-for-extreme-inner-misalignment?commentId=tXPrvXihTwp2hKYME