This would mean that everyone would have an additional burden when replying, to decide whether to press “agree” or not. Which would be more likely to discourage people from replying with actual content than to encourage them to do so.
I wouldn’t mind however for the creation of a alternate system that was designed for the purposes of polling. So that e.g. a person ticked a checkbox [Ask Yes/No] when writing a comment, and all the people replying to him could choose Yes or No. This would be far far more elegant than “upvote here if you agree, downvote there for karma balance.”
I disagree. Because absence of evidence is evidence of absence, that would mean that everyone who did not push the button, would be implied to disagree.
This would mean that everyone would have an additional burden when replying, to decide whether to press “agree” or not. Which would be more likely to discourage people from replying with actual content than to encourage them to do so.
I wouldn’t mind however for the creation of a alternate system that was designed for the purposes of polling. So that e.g. a person ticked a checkbox [Ask Yes/No] when writing a comment, and all the people replying to him could choose Yes or No. This would be far far more elegant than “upvote here if you agree, downvote there for karma balance.”