What if you could view the down votes made by any particular user from their profile page? A little passive accountability...
Personally I think the comment voting system is working alright. The overall s/n is more of an issue for me-- it would be nice to see some kind of karma based throttle for posting new articles.
There is a downside to that though. Plenty of people use the 'up' as "I agree" and 'down' as "I disagree". I know that's not the way they are intended to be used, but it opens the door to 'I don't like you' and 'I like you' votes as well.
Without having them split out like that you will then only be able to view those votes through your own perception of what was voted on.
This will eventually lead to meta-moderation (not necessarily a bad thing), that's a lot more work than a simple switch, which is one of the reasons I asked this, it's dead simple, takes 2 minutes to implement and we'll have results in a couple of days.
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What if you could view the down votes made by any particular user from their profile page? A little passive accountability...
Personally I think the comment voting system is working alright. The overall s/n is more of an issue for me-- it would be nice to see some kind of karma based throttle for posting new articles.
that's a good one!
There is a downside to that though. Plenty of people use the 'up' as "I agree" and 'down' as "I disagree". I know that's not the way they are intended to be used, but it opens the door to 'I don't like you' and 'I like you' votes as well.
Without having them split out like that you will then only be able to view those votes through your own perception of what was voted on.
This will eventually lead to meta-moderation (not necessarily a bad thing), that's a lot more work than a simple switch, which is one of the reasons I asked this, it's dead simple, takes 2 minutes to implement and we'll have results in a couple of days.
Plenty of people use the 'up' as "I agree" and 'down' as "I disagree". I know that's not the way they are intended to be used
Darn, I wish I would have bookmarked the comment in which pg said it was okay to vote to indicate agreement or disagreement. SearchYC is my friend:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
(And gojomo was my friend too, as I first found his comment linking to pg's comment when I did my SearchYC search.)
onclick=confirm('Are you up-modding because you feel the comment added value to the discussion?')