Shortform: ah, so it isn’t intended as zoning. More that short-form and long-form are both valuable, but each needs a separate space to exist. (This seems to be a law of online media: short-form and long-form can’t naturally share the same space. Same for sync and async. See e.g. Google Wave failure. I don’t entirely understand the reasons, though.)
Agree-voting: I too end up incorporating “agreement” into the “overall” vote, despite the separate axis. I think “overall” almost implies I should do that! (Perhaps if “overall” were renamed to e.g. “important”? “How important is this comment?”)
Possible future changes: I like your suggestions! Though (in line with the CoI research) I’d like to think about: can we measure (e.g. with split testing) whether those changes affect behavior in the right direction? Or can we draw on empirical CoI research instead of testing it ourselves?
Oh, wow, so I’d misunderstood that one as well! Apparently, my expectation so strong that the main axis was supposed to exclude “agreement”, that I actively misinterpreted the word “overall”. I just discovered this announcement of “Agree/Disagree Voting” which mostly confirms that yes, overall is supposed to be overall.
Shortform: ah, so it isn’t intended as zoning. More that short-form and long-form are both valuable, but each needs a separate space to exist. (This seems to be a law of online media: short-form and long-form can’t naturally share the same space. Same for sync and async. See e.g. Google Wave failure. I don’t entirely understand the reasons, though.)
Agree-voting: I too end up incorporating “agreement” into the “overall” vote, despite the separate axis. I think “overall” almost implies I should do that! (Perhaps if “overall” were renamed to e.g. “important”? “How important is this comment?”)
Possible future changes: I like your suggestions! Though (in line with the CoI research) I’d like to think about: can we measure (e.g. with split testing) whether those changes affect behavior in the right direction? Or can we draw on empirical CoI research instead of testing it ourselves?
Overall is explicitly supposed to be overall.
Oh, wow, so I’d misunderstood that one as well! Apparently, my expectation so strong that the main axis was supposed to exclude “agreement”, that I actively misinterpreted the word “overall”. I just discovered this announcement of “Agree/Disagree Voting” which mostly confirms that yes, overall is supposed to be overall.