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There could be two kinds of downvotes: * "I disagree" downvote * "This comment has no value" downvote First downvote can be used for arguments like "let's incr
by lightgreen 6y ago
There could be two kinds of downvotes:
* "I disagree" downvote
* "This comment has no value" downvote
First downvote can be used for arguments like "let's increase taxes to the rich because, this way we can build more fair society, European countries have shown that high taxes..."
Second downvote can be used for comments like "Let's tax these rich bastards".
I want to also mention reddit voting system which I kinda like: they have downvoting, but they also have a sorting by "controvervial": top comments are the comments with high number of both upvotes and downvotes, such comments really help to see the full spectre of opinions in discussions, while the universally true and not interesting comments everyone agrees with like "we should not kill people", are below controversial comments.
- CM30 6y agoThe ideal solution is definitely to split ratings, both for upvotes and downvotes. Slashdot did this, and quite a few forum scripts have plugins for it, where you can rate posts based on things like whether you agree/disagree with them, if they're funny or informative, if they're spam/low quality etc. Having it work that way would significantly discourage using upvotes and downvotes as agree/disagree buttons, and make it much clearer what the community thinks of any particular post or piece of content.