But those downvotes aren’t just interpreted by others as meaning “this proof is incorrect”; they’re interpreted as meaning “this topic is unimportant” or “this approach is uninteresting”.
This goes the other way too. Often people will vote up posts for being interesting, and others can erroneously interpret the up votes as indicating the post is correct. I think it would be better if such a post were downvoted (not excessively) and some people left comments explaining that though the topic is interesting, the argument and conclusions are not correct. Someone who sees this and is capable of writing a better, correct article on the topic would be encouraged to do so.
Would it be worthwhile (given the added complexity) to vote on different aspects of posts, so it has seperately reported karma scores for correctness, being interesting, being a good approach, being useful, being entertaining, ect?
Would it be worthwhile (given the added complexity) to vote on different aspects of posts, so it has seperately reported karma scores for correctness, being interesting, being a good approach, being useful, being entertaining, ect?
I would support a more complex karma system like that, and I think you’ve got a reasonable set of categories.
I’m assuming it would be grafted onto the old system, so that old karma score would be retained, but the more specific scores would be the only ones which could be added.
“Interesting” and “entertaining” karma shouldn’t count for getting permission to do top level posts.
This goes the other way too. Often people will vote up posts for being interesting, and others can erroneously interpret the up votes as indicating the post is correct. I think it would be better if such a post were downvoted (not excessively) and some people left comments explaining that though the topic is interesting, the argument and conclusions are not correct. Someone who sees this and is capable of writing a better, correct article on the topic would be encouraged to do so.
Would it be worthwhile (given the added complexity) to vote on different aspects of posts, so it has seperately reported karma scores for correctness, being interesting, being a good approach, being useful, being entertaining, ect?
I would support a more complex karma system like that, and I think you’ve got a reasonable set of categories.
I’m assuming it would be grafted onto the old system, so that old karma score would be retained, but the more specific scores would be the only ones which could be added.
“Interesting” and “entertaining” karma shouldn’t count for getting permission to do top level posts.