I’m very interested to try the new two-axis voting system but it seems to only be active on one post which also happens to be very tied up with some current Bay Area-specific issues which limits who can actually engage with it. I also think it would be good for the community to get to “practice” with such voting on some topics which are easier to discuss so norms can be established before moving on to the more explosive ones. I’d like to see more posts with this enabled, perhaps a few more people with posts having >20 comments currently on the frontpage could be asked about it, or a pinned post could be made by the mods explaining it and enabling people to ask for it.
I do think that group-politics-related posts might have the greatest potential to benefit from this type of voting (especially relative to the current system).
I think your comment excellently illustrates the problems with the experiment!
Next to the upvote/downvote buttons there’s a separate box for agreement/disagreement. I think the aim is to separate “this post contributes to the discussion in a positive/negative way” from “I think the claims expressed here are accurate”. It’s active in the comments of the post I linked in my comment and there’s a pinned comment from Ruby explaining it.
I’m very interested to try the new two-axis voting system but it seems to only be active on one post which also happens to be very tied up with some current Bay Area-specific issues which limits who can actually engage with it. I also think it would be good for the community to get to “practice” with such voting on some topics which are easier to discuss so norms can be established before moving on to the more explosive ones. I’d like to see more posts with this enabled, perhaps a few more people with posts having >20 comments currently on the frontpage could be asked about it, or a pinned post could be made by the mods explaining it and enabling people to ask for it.
I do think that group-politics-related posts might have the greatest potential to benefit from this type of voting (especially relative to the current system).
What’s the two-axis voting system?
I think your comment excellently illustrates the problems with the experiment!
Next to the upvote/downvote buttons there’s a separate box for agreement/disagreement. I think the aim is to separate “this post contributes to the discussion in a positive/negative way” from “I think the claims expressed here are accurate”. It’s active in the comments of the post I linked in my comment and there’s a pinned comment from Ruby explaining it.
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Ah. I saw as soon as I went to the comments. Glancing at the top of the post—and hovering—did not reveal any such voting approach on the post.
this comment
At glance, the point is something like:
Agree, Downvote
This comment is fine—but it’s in the wrong spot, posted twice, or off topic.
It gets more complicated from there.
ETA:
Actually, the notes on the ‘agree’ option are really vague.