With 2 buttons: Upvote + Brain (I just learned something—use sparingly)
With three buttons: Eye (Worth seeing, make it more visible) + brain, + thumbs up (agreement)
With four buttons: Eye + brain + Heart (I wish to signal support ) + Checkmark (This is probably correct)
...and so on. To save space, you could double-click to indicate the reverse (make this less visible, this is incorrect, i condemn this). Visibility wise, eyes would function as upvotes. There’s diminishing returns on additional buttons, but I really doubt that the optimal number is one button set. I’m guessing optimal probably sits around 2, possibly 3.
Wouldn’t you really love to sort posts by the number of people who say they personally benefited or learned from them, rather than karma? Wouldn’t it be nice if opinion-popularity and visibility weren’t interchangeable? And if someone was up-voted for making a good argument which was nevertheless controversial, wouldn’t it be nice to know how many people actually agree? And heart/checkmark solve the whole “agree denotatively, disagree connotationally” thing, which I think happens much more frequently than people realize, and checkmark counts are good ways to assign confidence.
I’ve always wished there were more buttons.
With 2 buttons: Upvote + Brain (I just learned something—use sparingly)
With three buttons: Eye (Worth seeing, make it more visible) + brain, + thumbs up (agreement)
With four buttons: Eye + brain + Heart (I wish to signal support ) + Checkmark (This is probably correct)
...and so on. To save space, you could double-click to indicate the reverse (make this less visible, this is incorrect, i condemn this). Visibility wise, eyes would function as upvotes. There’s diminishing returns on additional buttons, but I really doubt that the optimal number is one button set. I’m guessing optimal probably sits around 2, possibly 3.
Wouldn’t you really love to sort posts by the number of people who say they personally benefited or learned from them, rather than karma? Wouldn’t it be nice if opinion-popularity and visibility weren’t interchangeable? And if someone was up-voted for making a good argument which was nevertheless controversial, wouldn’t it be nice to know how many people actually agree? And heart/checkmark solve the whole “agree denotatively, disagree connotationally” thing, which I think happens much more frequently than people realize, and checkmark counts are good ways to assign confidence.