If agreement votes aren’t going to be used, why not do away with them altogether and just use the current system to vote based on quality only?
I like Jess’s proposal because I think it has a better chance of working in practice. Most of us, I think, do want to express agreement / disagreement, and I think separating it out into a separate vote would work better with real humans’ cognitive systems than relying on people following an explicit instruction to ignore one of their motivations. [Yes, I would like to see a study testing this assumption somehow, but in the meantime, that’s the prediction my subjective probability is going into...]
Besides, I would find the agree/disagree info interesting. And I think it probably reduces “me too” posts. And the info presumably could be used for the “most controversial” page.
(edited: s/separate out their motivations/ignore one of their motivations/)
I think other people have said it, but Slashdot has one of the best commenting structures around.
Different values for different categories (funny, insightful etc....), anonymous posting, reputation, very clear thread structure. All sorts of fun stuff
I like Jess’s proposal because I think it has a better chance of working in practice. Most of us, I think, do want to express agreement / disagreement, and I think separating it out into a separate vote would work better with real humans’ cognitive systems than relying on people following an explicit instruction to ignore one of their motivations. [Yes, I would like to see a study testing this assumption somehow, but in the meantime, that’s the prediction my subjective probability is going into...]
Besides, I would find the agree/disagree info interesting. And I think it probably reduces “me too” posts. And the info presumably could be used for the “most controversial” page.
(edited: s/separate out their motivations/ignore one of their motivations/)
I think other people have said it, but Slashdot has one of the best commenting structures around.
Different values for different categories (funny, insightful etc....), anonymous posting, reputation, very clear thread structure. All sorts of fun stuff