Agree. One of the broader things I have been thinking of is a similar two-tier voting system like Facebook has.
There is the primary interaction of upvoting and downvoting, but then there are additional vote-types you can access with an additional click (on Facebook “angry”, “sad”, etc. here it would be “exceptionally good point”, “needs clarification”, “too agressive” or something along those lines).
First click could be the generic upvote or downvote; then using a second click you could pick a more specific “flavor” of the vote. (Different flavors for upvotes, and for downvotes.)
Being able to sort by some of those would also be helpful (e.g. Sort comments by ‘exceptional insight’, don’t show me comments with >2 ‘overly aggressive’.)
You mentioned an alternative comment structure in the features post. Some of the value of that could be achieved by a 2nd tier vote saying a comment is a key consideration (e.g. “This is a crux”), and being able to sort by that.
Agree. One of the broader things I have been thinking of is a similar two-tier voting system like Facebook has.
There is the primary interaction of upvoting and downvoting, but then there are additional vote-types you can access with an additional click (on Facebook “angry”, “sad”, etc. here it would be “exceptionally good point”, “needs clarification”, “too agressive” or something along those lines).
First click could be the generic upvote or downvote; then using a second click you could pick a more specific “flavor” of the vote. (Different flavors for upvotes, and for downvotes.)
I think publicly applying badges to a comment should be completely orthogonal to anonymously voting on it. EDIT: now a feature request.
I’d like to see my old suggestion either folded into this feature, or perhaps as an independent one, whichever makes more sense.
That’s a really neat idea.
Being able to sort by some of those would also be helpful (e.g. Sort comments by ‘exceptional insight’, don’t show me comments with >2 ‘overly aggressive’.)
You mentioned an alternative comment structure in the features post. Some of the value of that could be achieved by a 2nd tier vote saying a comment is a key consideration (e.g. “This is a crux”), and being able to sort by that.