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Having two ways to vote (one for agreement, the other for value) would solve this problem, but add a little more complexity.
by techiferous 17y ago
Having two ways to vote (one for agreement, the other for value) would solve this problem, but add a little more complexity.
- zitterbewegung 17y agoThat is a frequent request for sites that have votes. It would be an interesting experiment to try it out on hn or some similar system to see how it handles.
- chrischen 17y agoIf they truly think they're right they might just downmod using both methods. I assume a lot of people who think a comment is wrong, might also think it is stupid.
- techiferous 17y agoThat's a great point, but the nice thing is that you can actually detect that programatically. If a user always votes both up or down, the software can remind them of how they are supposed to vote.
- Perceval 17y agoOr the software can just ignore people that vote both up or both down. The more interesting and 'telling' votes are those who agree but vote down, or disagree but vote up. Of course, it would behoove pg not to tell the secret, otherwise people would simply game the voting.
- access_denied 17y agoThe best way to disagree is already possible: reply to a comment by stating your opinion. Off course that can have negative effects on signal/noise ratio (or not?).
- palish 17y agoOverengineer much? The current system works.