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But is all that thinking really worth it? I mean surely you don't want to say too much bullshit, or mislead people... But take this comment; would I really post

But is all that thinking really worth it? I mean surely you don't want to say too much bullshit, or mislead people... But take this comment; would I really post it if I thought it would waste the time of some hundreds of people reading it? Also... then there's the problem of feedback, which is how you make progress in a conversation... but I fear I begin to digress.

H8crilA 7y ago
I wish downvotes had a text field feedback option. I often downvote comments for reasons that may not be obvious to the author. That could be ripe for abusive messages, but still think it's a noteworthy idea.
- brewdad 7y ago
  The old Slashdot moderation system had a variant of this. You could assigns comment score and a reason for that score. It worked pretty well until users inevitably learned how to abuse it.
  - DelightOne 7y ago
    I don't know the problems there, but would the following avoid the abuse? Only accept pre-defined labels everyone agreed on + references to existing answers? Alternatively only allow a refutation format which is simple to validate. And make it clear that votes are only a show of sentiment since this is not a democracy we are talking about.
  - zaphirplane 7y ago
    Abused in what way? That’s different from any other points moderation system
dredmorbius 7y ago
Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little. -- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Authorship" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship Writing for online credit, audience, influence, and/or "imaginary internet points" may not be money, but they are all extrinsic motivators in the sense Schopenhauer references.

H8crilA 7y ago

I wish downvotes had a text field feedback option. I often downvote comments for reasons that may not be obvious to the author. That could be ripe for abusive messages, but still think it's a noteworthy idea.

brewdad 7y ago
The old Slashdot moderation system had a variant of this. You could assigns comment score and a reason for that score. It worked pretty well until users inevitably learned how to abuse it.
- DelightOne 7y ago
  I don't know the problems there, but would the following avoid the abuse? Only accept pre-defined labels everyone agreed on + references to existing answers? Alternatively only allow a refutation format which is simple to validate. And make it clear that votes are only a show of sentiment since this is not a democracy we are talking about.
- zaphirplane 7y ago
  Abused in what way? That’s different from any other points moderation system

dredmorbius 7y ago

Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little. -- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Authorship" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship Writing for online credit, audience, influence, and/or "imaginary internet points" may not be money, but they are all extrinsic motivators in the sense Schopenhauer references.