Making it clear to users that on LessWrong, we factor out agreement from approval is a really important cultural touchstone, and if you separate them visually then that factorization is much less clear
Maybe you could repeat the karma at the bottom of the comment, next to the recently moved agreement?
When I tried this it felt pretty disorienting, especially to new users, but I am not confident it couldn’t be made to work.
The way I would probably structure it is to have just the karma at the top, without any vote buttons, and then to have the full interactive version of the karma and agreement at the bottom. I probably have some mockups where I try this somewhere, but it never really quite came together.
Maybe you could repeat the karma at the bottom of the comment, next to the recently moved agreement?
When I tried this it felt pretty disorienting, especially to new users, but I am not confident it couldn’t be made to work.
The way I would probably structure it is to have just the karma at the top, without any vote buttons, and then to have the full interactive version of the karma and agreement at the bottom. I probably have some mockups where I try this somewhere, but it never really quite came together.