Idea: Upvote-only shortforms posts. The karma isn’t counted on the user karma score, but the submission also can’t be downvoted, which encourages more wild and possibly wrong speculations. Having a shortform post be visibly upvote-only would also be a nice signal (“Don’t take this one too seriously”).
Why have upvotes at all? Because even if the votes don’t go into the site karma, people still care about number go up, just as they care about hearts on twitter.
Upsides: This makes the shortform posts in question more like twitter.
Downsides: This makes the shortform posts in question more like twitter.
Oops. Don’t know what’s wrong, it’s a shortform post by me. Here’s the text:
Crazy idea: you’re not allowed to downvote without either writing an explanation of why, or pressing agree on someone else’s explanation of why they downvoted. Or some variation of that.
Idea: Upvote-only shortforms posts. The karma isn’t counted on the user karma score, but the submission also can’t be downvoted, which encourages more wild and possibly wrong speculations. Having a shortform post be visibly upvote-only would also be a nice signal (“Don’t take this one too seriously”). Why have upvotes at all? Because even if the votes don’t go into the site karma, people still care about number go up, just as they care about hearts on twitter.
Upsides: This makes the shortform posts in question more like twitter. Downsides: This makes the shortform posts in question more like twitter.
Another feature idea: Ability to sort posts after length (I have discovered that posts <1k words are often much more upvoted, but far more fluffy).
Further ideas for Lesswrong:
ability to give a probability of showing up when RSVPing for event attendance
polls
an option to sort comments on user pages (just as one can sort posts, i.e. by karma & timespans)
if a post is in two sequences, an ability to switch between the two sequences for that post
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2J5AsHPxxLGZ78Z7s/bios-brakhus?commentId=PdfcGEWMTT4h7kCDE
When I open the link it tells me I don’t have access to that post.
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I like this idea! I already try to follow “don’t downvote unless explaining”.
Oh cool. Me too. (The first vote on my comment here was a downvote with no explanation and I’d wondered if it was you making a slightly mean joke :p )
Nope, haha :-D