Maybe that’s useful, but we’d have to figure out what votes are supposed to mean in the first place, i.e. I’m not sure there is a well defined notion of what votes are for now such that we could change the UI to encourage using them in the expected manner.
I have an idea of what problems I’d like solved and voting is one way to solve some of those problems and in that context we might have some sense of how we would like to ask users to use voting, but that only makes sense in that context. On it’s own voting is just incrementing/decrementing counters in the database and that counter is used to inform some algorithms about the order in which content is displayed on the site; we have to decide what that means to us and what we would like it to do beyond what it naturally does on its own such that providing instruction and shaping the UI to encourage particular behaviors is meaningful.
So that’s a long way to say yes, but conditional on having explicit norms.
What are your thoughts on *re-labeling* the voting UI so that it’s more clear to voters what the site norms are for the meaning of up- and downvotes?
Maybe that’s useful, but we’d have to figure out what votes are supposed to mean in the first place, i.e. I’m not sure there is a well defined notion of what votes are for now such that we could change the UI to encourage using them in the expected manner.
I have an idea of what problems I’d like solved and voting is one way to solve some of those problems and in that context we might have some sense of how we would like to ask users to use voting, but that only makes sense in that context. On it’s own voting is just incrementing/decrementing counters in the database and that counter is used to inform some algorithms about the order in which content is displayed on the site; we have to decide what that means to us and what we would like it to do beyond what it naturally does on its own such that providing instruction and shaping the UI to encourage particular behaviors is meaningful.
So that’s a long way to say yes, but conditional on having explicit norms.