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I have a proposal. The idea of up/down voting expressing agreement/disagreement seems standard. At least, that is what I have seen. If we try to impose a new s
by brianto2010 17y ago
I have a proposal.
The idea of up/down voting expressing agreement/disagreement seems standard. At least, that is what I have seen. If we try to impose a new standard (downvote -> moderation), then users will (probably) ignore that standard or not follow it.
Therefore, why don't we try to do something different. Instead of having upvote/downvote arrows which implies the standard, we can use a plus sign (or an arrow up) for agreement, and a null sign or an 'X' for disagreement. That way, down voting might not imply disagreement, because an 'X' does not mean disagreement; it means 'not allowed'.
- tokenadult 17y agoI like the idea of orthogonal marking of comments, and wonder how many previous comments advocating that have been posted to the feature requests thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 (linked to from the bottom of the main page) or posted in other threads.
- chrischen 17y agoI've been pushing for no downvoting: just upvote or flag for a while now.