If I continue reading more on the site, I can’t vote on stuff until the rate limit ends.
You can’t register a vote. The computational part—evaluation—can be done if you can read, and record your thoughts.
Caveats:
If you would want to change your voting if the context changes (surrounding or following comments).
If someone edits something (usually denoted somehow, like ETA), that might change your evaluation.
The fix for both is save.
EDIT: Another fix would be to rate-limit votes on posts more strictly than on comments.
Or have a separate voting system, and import later. This could enable prioritization of votes.
(As software, a separate voting system, something big) Benefits of this approach:
No rate limits.
Backups.
If used more broadly (say by a lot of people), you could experiment with different ranking/display options. Display upvotes and downvotes, switch between ‘votes weighted by karma’, and base ranking with users.
Right now there’s upvoting and strong upvoting. WIth an entirely different system, you’re free to experiment. (Should there be upvoting or downvoting? Should a thread of comments be ranked on the parent node’s rating, or also take into account the rating of child nodes?)
Being able to add more features. Like, bookmarking comments as well as posts.
You can’t register a vote. The computational part—evaluation—can be done if you can read, and record your thoughts.
Caveats:
If you would want to change your voting if the context changes (surrounding or following comments).
If someone edits something (usually denoted somehow, like ETA), that might change your evaluation.
The fix for both is save.
Or have a separate voting system, and import later. This could enable prioritization of votes.
(As software, a separate voting system, something big) Benefits of this approach:
No rate limits.
Backups.
If used more broadly (say by a lot of people), you could experiment with different ranking/display options. Display upvotes and downvotes, switch between ‘votes weighted by karma’, and base ranking with users.
Right now there’s upvoting and strong upvoting. WIth an entirely different system, you’re free to experiment. (Should there be upvoting or downvoting? Should a thread of comments be ranked on the parent node’s rating, or also take into account the rating of child nodes?)
Being able to add more features. Like, bookmarking comments as well as posts.
Social bookmarking.