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I think this is a really good idea. Also it would be interesting to test adding a compulsory text field when someone downvotes to include why you down voted.

I think this is a really good idea. Also it would be interesting to test adding a compulsory text field when someone downvotes to include why you down voted. Then add votes to down-vote reasons. Over time you would develop a good database of people who add value through downvoting (vs I disagree mentality) and weight these accordingly for better auto-moderation.

KajMagnus 9y ago
Interesting idea, i.e. the text field. In real life, though, people would be too short of time, to click buttons and open menus to find out what other people have written in those text fields (I'm assuming the texts woudln't be shown direcly on the page?). There'd be barely no meta-votes, I'm afraid. And the insightful reasons for why-downvote, would be in effect hidden. What about a little tweak: To instead let people add ordinary replies = ordinary comments, to describe why they downvoted? Maybe a downvote icon, could be shown, somewhere next to the reply, and the computer would know that "this reply is an explanation about why the author downvoted the parent". And if someone agreed with that downvote-reason, they could maybe click the Like button, for the reply. And then the system knows that "People like this reasoning about downvoting", and henceforth give slightly more trust to the downvoter's downvotes.