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Didn't slashdot have a feature kind of like this? Reasons why something was upvoted or downvoted alongside their score.
by latortuga 6y ago
Didn't slashdot have a feature kind of like this? Reasons why something was upvoted or downvoted alongside their score.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoCorrect. SoylentNews goes one step further, and adds +0 agree and -0 disagree. I'm not sure if such votes have any real effect.
- ryandrake 6y agoI love the idea of +0 for Agree and -0 for Disagree. A comment’s score should be about how high quality it is, not how popular it is or how many people agree with it. Keep a separate agree/disagree count for users who are curious. Leave actual negative scores for low quality things like spam, flamebait and harassment.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> A comment’s score should be about how high quality it is, not how popular it is or how many people agree with it. It almost goes without saying, but that's how just about all online communities say the upvote/downvote buttons are to be used. Unfortunately no online community can be trusted to be mature enough to actually follow the rules. Not even HackerNews manages to robustly resist the downvoting of dissenting opinions. > Keep a separate agree/disagree count for users who are curious. That's an interesting idea, to my knowledge SoylentNews doesn't implement this. Having a two dimensional score, one for quality and one for popularity, might be effective in getting people not to abuse the quality feedback system.
- gwbas1c 6y agoYeah, that's the one thing I miss from Slashdot while I'm here. I think it still has the feature... I just haven't used Slashdot enough over the past few years to moderate. But, one of the things I like here is that you can vote in the same thread that you're posting in. (IE, I upvoted you because you reminded me where my idea came from.)