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Rather than keep trying to keep educating people that you don't want them to do what apparently is natural (I think digg and reddit et al have conditioned the u
by fluidcruft 16y ago
Rather than keep trying to keep educating people that you don't want them to do what apparently is natural (I think digg and reddit et al have conditioned the upvote/downvote behavior upvote things based on agreement/disagreement/amusement.)
Maybe what's needed is to try an explicitly enable both these behaviors. Something like let the arrows become "popularity/reddit-mode" and add a separate "excellent" button next to "flag". Then you have two metrics without the annoying slashdot vectors. You can then either use the up/down votes or just leave them there as placebos.
- moe 16y agoI'm probably in the minority, but I actually like the concept of the slashdot-vectors as a way to give non-verbal feedback a bit more specific than "up" or "down". The crux is of course in the choice of adjectives. I wonder what would happen if one would let the users choose free-form tags...
- intended 16y agoFree form tags, I assume, would move towards reddit/slashdot types of creative usage. For example Slashdot current top article is: Headline: "Celebrating Yuri Gagarin's 1961 Flight Into Space" Author : "from the to-go-boldly dept"