None. I would rather express such things in words, and I would rather other people expressed such things in words. I am not interested in knowing how many people decided to click “like” or “angry” or “skeptical” or whatever on a post; I think there’s very little real information in that. I am interested in actual comments that say “I liked this because it’s clearly written and makes an important point” or “It is infuriating that Joe Biden kicks puppies”[1] or “It doesn’t look to me as if you’ve explained clearly how step 4 follows from step 3″.
[1] To the best of my knowledge, Joe Biden does not in fact kick puppies.
You say that it’s not informative to see the number of people, and that seems fair to me, but I think often knowing the individuals who clicked it is quite interesting. If Robin Hanson clicks a button that says “needs operationalising” or Abram writes a button saying “changed my mind”, I think I’d find that to be pretty helpful feedback, certainly compared with a baseline of zero feedback.
The general idea would be to reduce the affordance for saying things – sometimes users get no feedback/comments at all, and it might be better overall to be able to have users hit buttons like “informative” or “changed my mind” or “confusing” or “too long”.
...actually, the “too long” one is a common reaction I have, come to think of it. I bet sometimes I’d click that reaction myself, on my own writing.
(I agree that icons rather than text is probably worse.)
None. I would rather express such things in words, and I would rather other people expressed such things in words. I am not interested in knowing how many people decided to click “like” or “angry” or “skeptical” or whatever on a post; I think there’s very little real information in that. I am interested in actual comments that say “I liked this because it’s clearly written and makes an important point” or “It is infuriating that Joe Biden kicks puppies”[1] or “It doesn’t look to me as if you’ve explained clearly how step 4 follows from step 3″.
[1] To the best of my knowledge, Joe Biden does not in fact kick puppies.
You say that it’s not informative to see the number of people, and that seems fair to me, but I think often knowing the individuals who clicked it is quite interesting. If Robin Hanson clicks a button that says “needs operationalising” or Abram writes a button saying “changed my mind”, I think I’d find that to be pretty helpful feedback, certainly compared with a baseline of zero feedback.
The general idea would be to reduce the affordance for saying things – sometimes users get no feedback/comments at all, and it might be better overall to be able to have users hit buttons like “informative” or “changed my mind” or “confusing” or “too long”.
...actually, the “too long” one is a common reaction I have, come to think of it. I bet sometimes I’d click that reaction myself, on my own writing.
(I agree that icons rather than text is probably worse.)