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How about three buttons: >I agree >I disagree >This is spam The total votes in the first two are used in the ranking, but then you also get "recommended fri

How about three buttons: >I agree >I disagree >This is spam The total votes in the first two are used in the ranking, but then you also get "recommended friends" based on who else has agreed with what you've agreed with, and "advocated devils" based on who disagrees with what you agree with. These two groups are then used to alert the user to comments made by these people, which may indicate a discussion worth joining.

Tiksi 11y ago
The first part of that is more or less the slashdot system, which I think worked pretty well. However the recommended friends / advocated devils seems like it would encourage groupthink / witchhunts / voting rings, etc. Personally I think the best way to modify the current system would be to have up/down votes only affect the comment's position on the page and nothing else, no persistent or visible score for users or comments.