Switch the symbols, thumbs up/down for good/bad post, plus/minus for agree/disagree. Thumb pointing is rating a performance, not voting to show agreement, while the jump form “me too” to “+” is fairly small. On some boards there even seems to be a convention of replying with “+1” to signify something like “I wanted to say that, too”.
Switch the symbols, thumbs up/down for good/bad post, plus/minus for agree/disagree. Thumb pointing is rating a performance, not voting to show agreement, while the jump form “me too” to “+” is fairly small. On some boards there even seems to be a convention of replying with “+1” to signify something like “I wanted to say that, too”.
I think it’s thoroughly ambiguous either way—context will have to do most of the work.
But surely we’ll want plus/minus to be the buttons that add to/subtract from karma.