> 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 h

> 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.