What about having users send a short private message explaining their strong vote? It’s more of a speed bump than forcing someone to hold the mouse down, and it seems valuable in either case:
For a strong upvote, verbal praise is a powerful reinforcer. Consider +10 karma vs “Reading your comment helped me X, and now life is great”. Nudging people to say the second without any worry of cluttering up a thread seems potentially very good.
For a strong downvote, see this post. (Could also be an argument for downvote-free zones.)
I kinda agree with Dagon that we’re entering the zone of diminishing returns, but I could see this being very useful if the site was in danger of being overrun.
Trivial inconvenience alert: My regular username/password did not work on the lessestwrong site, and I had to create a new account.
Cool. We have considered doing the “strong vote requires short message” thing, and it might well be a good combination of useful + the right amount of trivial inconvenience.
Main reason not to (yet) is it’s an extra layer of complexity to code, and it seems better for a few reasons to try the simpler version of the thing first.
What about having users send a short private message explaining their strong vote? It’s more of a speed bump than forcing someone to hold the mouse down, and it seems valuable in either case:
For a strong upvote, verbal praise is a powerful reinforcer. Consider +10 karma vs “Reading your comment helped me X, and now life is great”. Nudging people to say the second without any worry of cluttering up a thread seems potentially very good.
For a strong downvote, see this post. (Could also be an argument for downvote-free zones.)
I kinda agree with Dagon that we’re entering the zone of diminishing returns, but I could see this being very useful if the site was in danger of being overrun.
Trivial inconvenience alert: My regular username/password did not work on the lessestwrong site, and I had to create a new account.
Cool. We have considered doing the “strong vote requires short message” thing, and it might well be a good combination of useful + the right amount of trivial inconvenience.
Main reason not to (yet) is it’s an extra layer of complexity to code, and it seems better for a few reasons to try the simpler version of the thing first.