I am pretty uncertain about whether this change is good, and I don’t think anyone can confidently say it is or isn’t good. But no other forum with voting does this (AFAIK), so it’s good to try it and see what happens.
Something to think about: What sorts of observations might constitute evidence in favor of or against this system?
Something I’m hoping to see (and would constitute positive evidence for me) would be seeing a comment with a high/low agree score, and someone responding along the lines of “Huh, seems like lots of people agree/disagree with this comment, which seems wrong to me, let me flesh out a counterargument here” and that post leading to many users changing their minds, and future comments about that point getting a v different agree/disagree score.
I am pretty uncertain about whether this change is good, and I don’t think anyone can confidently say it is or isn’t good. But no other forum with voting does this (AFAIK), so it’s good to try it and see what happens.
Something to think about: What sorts of observations might constitute evidence in favor of or against this system?
Something I’m hoping to see (and would constitute positive evidence for me) would be seeing a comment with a high/low agree score, and someone responding along the lines of “Huh, seems like lots of people agree/disagree with this comment, which seems wrong to me, let me flesh out a counterargument here” and that post leading to many users changing their minds, and future comments about that point getting a v different agree/disagree score.