I am opposed to this change, because it makes voting more cognitively expensive. Now I feel forced to produce two judgments on each comment, which in turn makes me think about the exact difference between them. A single “liked this / disliked this” requires much less thinking. Multiply it by the number of comments each day.
Doing this for short time may be an interesting experiment, but if this feature stays here, I will probably just try to ignore it and only use the first button. But then from my perspective the UI just got cluttered.
I would appreciate if at least you could add some space between the two voting widgets. The distance between “Upvote” and “Disagree” should be visibly larger than the distances between “Downvote” and “Upvote”, and “Disagree” and “Agree”. (But I am asking this because I want to make ignoring the second widget easier.)
And maybe, the second widget should have a different design. Like, maybe instead of displaying the total difference of agreement and disagreement, just display both numbers separately? So it would look like:
[ < 10 > ] ….. 5 x … 7 v
(dots represent the empty space between the buttons)
I am opposed to this change, because it makes voting more cognitively expensive. Now I feel forced to produce two judgments on each comment, which in turn makes me think about the exact difference between them. A single “liked this / disliked this” requires much less thinking. Multiply it by the number of comments each day.
Doing this for short time may be an interesting experiment, but if this feature stays here, I will probably just try to ignore it and only use the first button. But then from my perspective the UI just got cluttered.
I would appreciate if at least you could add some space between the two voting widgets. The distance between “Upvote” and “Disagree” should be visibly larger than the distances between “Downvote” and “Upvote”, and “Disagree” and “Agree”. (But I am asking this because I want to make ignoring the second widget easier.)
And maybe, the second widget should have a different design. Like, maybe instead of displaying the total difference of agreement and disagreement, just display both numbers separately? So it would look like:
(dots represent the empty space between the buttons)