I think thumbs shouldn’t be used for agreement, since this is a more specific characterization than relevance/quality/yay! of Karma (and the purpose of agree/disagree is partially to make this component explicit where it’s well-defined), but +/- for agree/disagree will just be confusing.
My suggestion for agree/disagree are ‘==’ (equals) and ‘=/=’ (not equals) symbols drawn in sufficiently clear way, perhaps in circles.
My suggestion for agree/disagree are ‘==’ (equals) and ‘=/=’ (not equals) symbols drawn is sufficiently clear way, perhaps in circles.
So long as mouseover text (for example) makes it clear what on earth the == stuff means.
Mind you I suspect I will opt out of the agree/disagree feature via greasemonkey anyway. I tend to find that the judgement of humans is leaky and that the underlying cause of a negative judgement (be it disagreement with the comment, disagreement with other comments that are similar, disapproval of the subject or disapproval of the author) is something that must be inferred from the context. I suspect that I would find the behavioural patterns related to the agree/disagree feature slightly irritating to watch.
I think it is the honesty or straightforwardness of karma votes that appeals to me. “Trivial positive political action; trivial negative political action”. So when I see something that is obviously correct that gets downvoted heavily it just means that some folks had personal reasons to downvote. Fair enough. But if there were lots of ‘disagree’ votes then that really would mean that the thinking processes of the community was defective.
The above isn’t meant as an argument against or a complaint about the implementation of the new feature. I’m sure it’ll be great for those who are interested in that sort of thing. I just may personally filter it out of my awareness. :)
I think thumbs shouldn’t be used for agreement, since this is a more specific characterization than relevance/quality/yay! of Karma (and the purpose of agree/disagree is partially to make this component explicit where it’s well-defined), but +/- for agree/disagree will just be confusing.
My suggestion for agree/disagree are ‘==’ (equals) and ‘=/=’ (not equals) symbols drawn in sufficiently clear way, perhaps in circles.
So long as mouseover text (for example) makes it clear what on earth the == stuff means.
Mind you I suspect I will opt out of the agree/disagree feature via greasemonkey anyway. I tend to find that the judgement of humans is leaky and that the underlying cause of a negative judgement (be it disagreement with the comment, disagreement with other comments that are similar, disapproval of the subject or disapproval of the author) is something that must be inferred from the context. I suspect that I would find the behavioural patterns related to the agree/disagree feature slightly irritating to watch.
I think it is the honesty or straightforwardness of karma votes that appeals to me. “Trivial positive political action; trivial negative political action”. So when I see something that is obviously correct that gets downvoted heavily it just means that some folks had personal reasons to downvote. Fair enough. But if there were lots of ‘disagree’ votes then that really would mean that the thinking processes of the community was defective.
The above isn’t meant as an argument against or a complaint about the implementation of the new feature. I’m sure it’ll be great for those who are interested in that sort of thing. I just may personally filter it out of my awareness. :)