So here’s a thing I’m a bit uneasy about with this, after living with it for a while: since every comment is, by default, strong-upvoted by its poster but only weak-{up/down}voted by others, and since most comments don’t attract huge numbers of votes, it seems as if a typical comment’s score says much more about who posted it than about what anyone else thought of it, and I’m not sure that’s how we want it.
Is it feasible to (1) make comments be only weak-upvoted by their posters, and (2) remove your ability to vote on your own comments?
(I don’t know whether that’s the right solution. Suppose A posts something and B really dislikes it and strong-downvotes it, and no one else cares much. Then the comment’s score will be negative even if A has much more karma than B, which may not be what we want.)
Curses me not reading carefully and then getting halfway through the comment and thing “yes! Check! Did it!” literally in the middle of a 2-part-clause that literally spelled out it’s 2-part-ness
No, and don’t currently plan to. (It’s plausibly more correct to implement for agree-voting, but I currently think it’s fine for users to occasionally strong upvote their comments when they think a particular comment is particularly important. (I haven’t seen any issues making me think people are currently a lot of adversarial self-upvotes)
We might change our mind on this, but that’s my current take.
I disagree here. Every time I’ve seen someone strong-self-vote their comment, I’ve felt it was pretty bad. It’s rare, and not obviously worth the effort to fix, but I wouldn’t agree with Ray’s take.
So here’s a thing I’m a bit uneasy about with this, after living with it for a while: since every comment is, by default, strong-upvoted by its poster but only weak-{up/down}voted by others, and since most comments don’t attract huge numbers of votes, it seems as if a typical comment’s score says much more about who posted it than about what anyone else thought of it, and I’m not sure that’s how we want it.
Is it feasible to (1) make comments be only weak-upvoted by their posters, and (2) remove your ability to vote on your own comments?
(I don’t know whether that’s the right solution. Suppose A posts something and B really dislikes it and strong-downvotes it, and no one else cares much. Then the comment’s score will be negative even if A has much more karma than B, which may not be what we want.)
Note for future people: this suggestion was eventually implemented.
Well, (1) was implemented, (2) wasn’t.
Curses me not reading carefully and then getting halfway through the comment and thing “yes! Check! Did it!” literally in the middle of a 2-part-clause that literally spelled out it’s 2-part-ness
Did you end up implementing part two?
No, and don’t currently plan to. (It’s plausibly more correct to implement for agree-voting, but I currently think it’s fine for users to occasionally strong upvote their comments when they think a particular comment is particularly important. (I haven’t seen any issues making me think people are currently a lot of adversarial self-upvotes)
We might change our mind on this, but that’s my current take.
I disagree here. Every time I’ve seen someone strong-self-vote their comment, I’ve felt it was pretty bad. It’s rare, and not obviously worth the effort to fix, but I wouldn’t agree with Ray’s take.
on my shortform i used self-strong-upvote to sort the videos list in a way that other users could vote on