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I like thinking of the voting arrows as a volume knob. If I like someone's comment, I turn up the volume a bit. For me, voting doesn't have to do with agreeing

I like thinking of the voting arrows as a volume knob. If I like someone's comment, I turn up the volume a bit. For me, voting doesn't have to do with agreeing with the poster. I tend to upvote comments if I believe they add some value to the parent topic, give me some insight, or teach me something new...

adharmad 17y ago
An interesting analogy. It would be nice, however, if the volume knob applied to the user and not to a specific comment. Say the user starts with a karma of 500, based on his comments, I can either turn his volume down to zero or up to 1000. (His volume for me that is). It works similarly in a real conversation, wherein folks will automatically tune out someone (based on their preferences) after a while. This has the downside of ignoring potentially interesting comments by someone having bad karma. But then again that's why its a reputation system - you make/break a reputation over a period of time.