Look at the karma numbers in this debate, and imagine them divided by ten. Oops, nothing is left.
Now imagine the same thing, except that one person (for whatever reason) bothered to vote. Now that one person’s opinion is all the feedback you have.
Also, that person is probably going to be someone with too much free time.
(For the record, I agree that better feedback would be nice to have, it’s just that I find this cure worse than the original problem. The problem is that better feedback is costly in terms of time and effort, and when you increase the costs, instead of better feedback you simply get less feedback. I mean, currently nothing is preventing the people who vote from also writing a comment. I am also pessimistic about finding a simple solution that would improve things, mostly because I think that if such simple fix existed, someone else would have already tried it on a different website.)
Look at the karma numbers in this debate, and imagine them divided by ten. Oops, nothing is left.
Now imagine the same thing, except that one person (for whatever reason) bothered to vote. Now that one person’s opinion is all the feedback you have.
Also, that person is probably going to be someone with too much free time.
(For the record, I agree that better feedback would be nice to have, it’s just that I find this cure worse than the original problem. The problem is that better feedback is costly in terms of time and effort, and when you increase the costs, instead of better feedback you simply get less feedback. I mean, currently nothing is preventing the people who vote from also writing a comment. I am also pessimistic about finding a simple solution that would improve things, mostly because I think that if such simple fix existed, someone else would have already tried it on a different website.)