Who cares how many points a given comment have gotten? Who cares what other people think? I see voting as a way to bury the clearly trolling or off-topic comments, not as a way to take the temperature of some community.
Maybe you get twenty-three down votes and forty-six ups; the point count isn't going to tell you that. I know that I have comments where the score hovers around one but have maybe ten votes that cancel each other out. What to make of that?
A voting system should have modest goals. (While the Slashdot community hasn't been my cup of tea for a while, I feel like they've muddled their way to a system that works pretty well.)
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Who cares how many points a given comment have gotten? Who cares what other people think? I see voting as a way to bury the clearly trolling or off-topic comments, not as a way to take the temperature of some community.
Maybe you get twenty-three down votes and forty-six ups; the point count isn't going to tell you that. I know that I have comments where the score hovers around one but have maybe ten votes that cancel each other out. What to make of that?
A voting system should have modest goals. (While the Slashdot community hasn't been my cup of tea for a while, I feel like they've muddled their way to a system that works pretty well.)