I’d find the agree/disagree dimension much more useful if we split out “x people agree, y disagree”—as the EA Forum does—rather than showing the sum of weighted votes (and total number on hover).
I’d also encourage people to use the other reactions more heavily, including on substrings of a comment, but there’s value in the anonymous dis/agree counts too.
The reason why I don’t want to do this is because when you split them out, implementing vote-weighting is much more confusing UI-wise, and I am strongly opposed to having any straightforward voting systems on LW be based on non-weighted voting. If I found a good UI for splitting them out while preserving vote-weighting, I think it could be better.
I’d find the agree/disagree dimension much more useful if we split out “x people agree, y disagree”—as the EA Forum does—rather than showing the sum of weighted votes (and total number on hover).
I’d also encourage people to use the other reactions more heavily, including on substrings of a comment, but there’s value in the anonymous dis/agree counts too.
(Randomly stumbled on this)
The reason why I don’t want to do this is because when you split them out, implementing vote-weighting is much more confusing UI-wise, and I am strongly opposed to having any straightforward voting systems on LW be based on non-weighted voting. If I found a good UI for splitting them out while preserving vote-weighting, I think it could be better.