I find it interesting how many people here (including myself) assumed you literally voted it both up and down. I rather liked the idea myself, since I hadn’t even considered that set of actions.
I’m also curious now, whether that action would be functionally different from abstaining. I’d assume it eats one point of your “downvote capacity” and nothing more, but I could see a system where comments get flagged as “controversial” due to lots of votes in both directions (I even recall a “controversial” flag in the code somewhere...)
I find it interesting how many people here (including myself) assumed you literally voted it both up and down.
And for extra irony it is interesting to note that I wasn’t one of them and it didn’t even occur to me that it would ever be taken literally. I make the same criticism/compliment myself from time to time and don’t actually click anything given the technical equivalence. Actually voting up and down is an optional extra for those with a truth fetish.
tests Per another commenter, the second vote seems to supersede the first vote, so they’re actually not technically equivalent, interesting :)
That said, I didn’t put any great weight in it being literally true, nor am I offended that it was a joke. It’s the sort of joke I’d make myself; it just seemed slightly more likely/interesting[*] that it was meant literally :)
It looks like it just registers the more recent vote, if by “vote up” and “vote down” you mean pressing the buttons labeled as such. Clicking on the same button again retracts the up/down vote.
This is my understanding from fooling around with the vote up / down buttons, there may be hidden behaviors.
I find it interesting how many people here (including myself) assumed you literally voted it both up and down. I rather liked the idea myself, since I hadn’t even considered that set of actions.
I’m also curious now, whether that action would be functionally different from abstaining. I’d assume it eats one point of your “downvote capacity” and nothing more, but I could see a system where comments get flagged as “controversial” due to lots of votes in both directions (I even recall a “controversial” flag in the code somewhere...)
And for extra irony it is interesting to note that I wasn’t one of them and it didn’t even occur to me that it would ever be taken literally. I make the same criticism/compliment myself from time to time and don’t actually click anything given the technical equivalence. Actually voting up and down is an optional extra for those with a truth fetish.
tests Per another commenter, the second vote seems to supersede the first vote, so they’re actually not technically equivalent, interesting :)
That said, I didn’t put any great weight in it being literally true, nor am I offended that it was a joke. It’s the sort of joke I’d make myself; it just seemed slightly more likely/interesting[*] that it was meant literally :)
Yes, you have to click the second one twice. ;)
Based on the karma for my last comment (-2), I’m hoping someone simply forgot that step :)
I’m not sure what happened to the voting in this thread. I assume someone took offense at the whole conversation. Never mind.
It looks like it just registers the more recent vote, if by “vote up” and “vote down” you mean pressing the buttons labeled as such. Clicking on the same button again retracts the up/down vote.
This is my understanding from fooling around with the vote up / down buttons, there may be hidden behaviors.
This is correct. It is just a three state toggle. Up, null, down.