Agree/disagree voting is already playing a kind of dangerous game by encouraging rounding the epistemic content of a comment into a single statement that it makes sense to assign a single truth-value to.
(I obviously haven’t thought about this as much as you. Very low confidence.)
I’m inclined to say that a strong part of human nature is to round the vibes that one feels towards a post into a single axis of “yay” versus “boo”, and then to feel a very strong urge to proclaim those vibes publicly.
And I think that people are doing that right now, via the karma vote.
I think an agree/disagree dial on posts would be an outlet (“tank”) to absorb those vibe expressions, and that this would shelter karma, allowing karma to retain its different role (“it’s good / bad that this exists”).
I agree that this whole thing (with people rounding everything into a 1D boo/yay vibes axis and then feeling an urge to publicly proclaim where they sit) is dumb, and if only we could all be autistic decouplers etc. But in the real world, I think the benefits of agree-voting (in helping prevent the dynamic where people with minority opinions get driven to negative karma and off the site) probably outweigh the cost (in having an agree / disagree tally on posts which is kinda dumb and meaningless).
(I obviously haven’t thought about this as much as you. Very low confidence.)
I’m inclined to say that a strong part of human nature is to round the vibes that one feels towards a post into a single axis of “yay” versus “boo”, and then to feel a very strong urge to proclaim those vibes publicly.
And I think that people are doing that right now, via the karma vote.
I think an agree/disagree dial on posts would be an outlet (“tank”) to absorb those vibe expressions, and that this would shelter karma, allowing karma to retain its different role (“it’s good / bad that this exists”).
I agree that this whole thing (with people rounding everything into a 1D boo/yay vibes axis and then feeling an urge to publicly proclaim where they sit) is dumb, and if only we could all be autistic decouplers etc. But in the real world, I think the benefits of agree-voting (in helping prevent the dynamic where people with minority opinions get driven to negative karma and off the site) probably outweigh the cost (in having an agree / disagree tally on posts which is kinda dumb and meaningless).