What if our voting system looked something like this, making room for both the enticing subjective vote as well as the democratic objective one? That tweak would fix all my bad voting habits.
I get the first three (fun to read upvote, novel or educational upvote, and downvote)
but what’s the last button mean?
“I agree to follow this course of action or policy and / or I think this person’s opinion is correct?”
And how would we explain to new users that it isn’t what it looks like...also, I’m wondering what context this image was originally created in...
On a serious note, we don’t want to get too complicated...but I wouldn’t object to a three button system. “Like” “Dislike” and “I personally learned something new, considered a novel idea, or updated an opinion as a result of this article or comment”.
Because while I tend to like reading well written articles which phrase my opinions more articulately than I myself could, I’d also like to be able to bring up the more difficult and rewarding pieces on command.
I’m guessing since we’ve apparently established that the average user here is gifted, we can trust people to use the “novel/learn/update” button correctly and with appropriate frugality. It would also be good for feedback purposes.
Seeing how you would interpret each icon based on context was an experiment in design.
The last icon is for the “circlejerk”: your objective sad face.
This is the part of my reply where i see i should offer more time to collecting hyperlinks for examples, but i hope it follows easily enough:
Relevant xkcd to voting systems: happy button only from me.
Someone saying they got their bike stolen while they were voting: sad button only
Peer-reviewed paper about voting in forums: brain button only
Peer-reviewed paper about the shape of Antarctica: sperm button
Peer-reviewed paper about Maru and the evolution of voting on Youtube: happy button and brain button from me.
Pun threads concerning voting: happy button and the sperm button from me.
Any opinion shared with Caps Lock: sad button and sperm button
Peer-reviewed paper about gun violence and voting systems: sad button and brain button from me.
Any other combinations would defeat themselves, so im don’t see any reason to click three buttons or all four. Perhaps the objective votes of brain and sperm are unlocked the way voting is unlocked in AskUbuntu’s forums: only after certain contributions and/or circumstances are met.
That’s what i’ll be fighting for at least. I vote subjectively and i vote objectively. If you make me choose, i’m going for the subjective vote every time. Best to break the two apart.
sperm: Brains have two hemispheres; i wonder if there’s correlation....
What if our voting system looked something like this, making room for both the enticing subjective vote as well as the democratic objective one? That tweak would fix all my bad voting habits.
I get the first three (fun to read upvote, novel or educational upvote, and downvote)
but what’s the last button mean?
“I agree to follow this course of action or policy and / or I think this person’s opinion is correct?”
And how would we explain to new users that it isn’t what it looks like...also, I’m wondering what context this image was originally created in...
On a serious note, we don’t want to get too complicated...but I wouldn’t object to a three button system. “Like” “Dislike” and “I personally learned something new, considered a novel idea, or updated an opinion as a result of this article or comment”.
Because while I tend to like reading well written articles which phrase my opinions more articulately than I myself could, I’d also like to be able to bring up the more difficult and rewarding pieces on command.
I’m guessing since we’ve apparently established that the average user here is gifted, we can trust people to use the “novel/learn/update” button correctly and with appropriate frugality. It would also be good for feedback purposes.
Seeing how you would interpret each icon based on context was an experiment in design.
The last icon is for the “circlejerk”: your objective sad face.
This is the part of my reply where i see i should offer more time to collecting hyperlinks for examples, but i hope it follows easily enough:
Relevant xkcd to voting systems: happy button only from me.
Someone saying they got their bike stolen while they were voting: sad button only
Peer-reviewed paper about voting in forums: brain button only
Peer-reviewed paper about the shape of Antarctica: sperm button
Peer-reviewed paper about Maru and the evolution of voting on Youtube: happy button and brain button from me.
Pun threads concerning voting: happy button and the sperm button from me.
Any opinion shared with Caps Lock: sad button and sperm button
Peer-reviewed paper about gun violence and voting systems: sad button and brain button from me.
Any other combinations would defeat themselves, so im don’t see any reason to click three buttons or all four. Perhaps the objective votes of brain and sperm are unlocked the way voting is unlocked in AskUbuntu’s forums: only after certain contributions and/or circumstances are met.
That’s what i’ll be fighting for at least. I vote subjectively and i vote objectively. If you make me choose, i’m going for the subjective vote every time. Best to break the two apart.
sperm: Brains have two hemispheres; i wonder if there’s correlation....