I think I’d change the left/right for regular karma to up/down, to match common usage. I agree with dissatisfaction for the agree/dis icons, but I’m not sure what’s better. Perhaps = and ≠, but that’s not perfect either. Perhaps a handshake for agree, but I don’t know the opposite for disagree.
edit: I’d also swap the icons. Good on the left, bad on the right. Only works if the votes are no longer less-than/greater-than symbols, though.
The problem with doing up/down is mostly just that this is hard to combine with the bigger arrows we use for strong-votes. If you just rotate them naively, the arrows stick out from the comment when strong-voted, or we have to add a bunch of padding to the comment to make it fit, which looks ugly and reduces information density.
I kinda like that the site ‘LessWrong’ uses a ‘less’ symbol for downvotes, and ‘more’ for upvotes.
I also like how this gestures at the intended interpretation of voting (an indication of whether you want less or more of the thing, not necessarily of the comment’s inherent goodness or badness).
I think the current symbols for agree / disagree are fine. Maybe there’s a version that does the ‘less vs. more’ thing too, though. (Here referring to ‘less true/probable’ vs. ‘more true/probable’.) E.g., ⩤ and ⩥, or ⧏ and ⧐, or ◀ and ▶.
I think I’d change the left/right for regular karma to up/down, to match common usage. I agree with dissatisfaction for the agree/dis icons, but I’m not sure what’s better. Perhaps = and ≠, but that’s not perfect either. Perhaps a handshake for agree, but I don’t know the opposite for disagree.
edit: I’d also swap the icons. Good on the left, bad on the right. Only works if the votes are no longer less-than/greater-than symbols, though.
The problem with doing up/down is mostly just that this is hard to combine with the bigger arrows we use for strong-votes. If you just rotate them naively, the arrows stick out from the comment when strong-voted, or we have to add a bunch of padding to the comment to make it fit, which looks ugly and reduces information density.
what if you rotate the arrows’s icons to icon-up, icon-down, but don’t move them into a vertical column?
I would do thumbs up/down for good/bad, and tick/cross for correct/incorrect.
Weak disagree
Disagree, they don’t bother me
Yeah plausibly, if the switch is made
I kinda like that the site ‘LessWrong’ uses a ‘less’ symbol for downvotes, and ‘more’ for upvotes.
I also like how this gestures at the intended interpretation of voting (an indication of whether you want less or more of the thing, not necessarily of the comment’s inherent goodness or badness).
I think the current symbols for agree / disagree are fine. Maybe there’s a version that does the ‘less vs. more’ thing too, though. (Here referring to ‘less true/probable’ vs. ‘more true/probable’.) E.g., ⩤ and ⩥, or ⧏ and ⧐, or ◀ and ▶.