Should we show the agreement number as a ratio rather than a sum? regular votes can be summed, because “low total” doesn’t matter much whether it’s a mix of up and down, or just low engagement overall. But for agreement, I want to know how agreed it was among those who bothered to have an opinion. Not having an opinion is not a negative on agreement.
I think I’d either show total and number of votes (as 20 / 12), or just the ratio (1.66).
edit: I may get this in the current setup from looking at agreement compared to karma, once I get used to it. But that makes it worth aligning the default self-votes for the two, so comments don’t start out controversial.
I think this is worth some experiments at least. I do think any number that is visible on every comment really needs to pass a very high bar, though this one seems like it could plausibly pass it.
Should we show the agreement number as a ratio rather than a sum? regular votes can be summed, because “low total” doesn’t matter much whether it’s a mix of up and down, or just low engagement overall. But for agreement, I want to know how agreed it was among those who bothered to have an opinion. Not having an opinion is not a negative on agreement.
I think I’d either show total and number of votes (as 20 / 12), or just the ratio (1.66).
edit: I may get this in the current setup from looking at agreement compared to karma, once I get used to it. But that makes it worth aligning the default self-votes for the two, so comments don’t start out controversial.
I think this is worth some experiments at least. I do think any number that is visible on every comment really needs to pass a very high bar, though this one seems like it could plausibly pass it.
+1
I don’t think this is reliable enough.