I agree, but I find something valuable about, like, unambiguous labels anyway?
Like it’s easier for me to metabolize “fine, these people are using the button ‘wrong’ according to the explicit request made by the site” somehow, than it is to metabolize the confusingly ambiguous open-ended “agree/disagree” which, from comments all throughout this post, clearly means like six different clusters of Thing.
(I do wonder whether the lack of agreement on the unwisdom of setting up new motte-and-baileys comes from the lack of agreement that the existing things are also motte-and-baileys… or something like them, anyway—is there even an “official” meaning of the karma vote buttons? Probably there is, but it’s not well-known enough to even be a “motte”, it seems to me… well, anyhow, as I said—maybe some folks think that the vote buttons are good and work well and convey useful info, and accordingly they also think that the agreement vote buttons will do likewise?)
I agree, but I find something valuable about, like, unambiguous labels anyway?
Like it’s easier for me to metabolize “fine, these people are using the button ‘wrong’ according to the explicit request made by the site” somehow, than it is to metabolize the confusingly ambiguous open-ended “agree/disagree” which, from comments all throughout this post, clearly means like six different clusters of Thing.
Did you mean “confusingly ambiguous”? If not, then could you explain that bit?
I did mean confusingly ambiguous, which is an ironic typo. Thanks.
I think we should be in the business of not setting up brand-new motte-and-baileys, and enshrining them in site architecture.
Yes, I certainly agree with this.
(I do wonder whether the lack of agreement on the unwisdom of setting up new motte-and-baileys comes from the lack of agreement that the existing things are also motte-and-baileys… or something like them, anyway—is there even an “official” meaning of the karma vote buttons? Probably there is, but it’s not well-known enough to even be a “motte”, it seems to me… well, anyhow, as I said—maybe some folks think that the vote buttons are good and work well and convey useful info, and accordingly they also think that the agreement vote buttons will do likewise?)