An update this made me have: shortform comments should maybe get a self-upvote based on your strongvote strength rather than weakvote, so that it’s a bit easier to scan the new content for stuff that’s likely to be interesting (and this seems fairly principled since we already do this for posts, which shortform are more like than comments)
(although Ruby noted “maybe we want to build Medium votes (which we’ve been thinking about anyway) and make shortform use them”)
Huh? How does strong-upvote-by-default make it any easier to distinguish the “likely to be interesting”? Oh, with the model that old-timers are more interesting always, I guess I get it, but I don’t actually agree.
I’d drop strong voting entirely, perhaps replacing it with medium-voting, but definitely keep it intentional and optional. I really hate seeing comments (even mine) with karma in the teens or twenties and just a few votes.
An update this made me have: shortform comments should maybe get a self-upvote based on your strongvote strength rather than weakvote, so that it’s a bit easier to scan the new content for stuff that’s likely to be interesting (and this seems fairly principled since we already do this for posts, which shortform are more like than comments)
(although Ruby noted “maybe we want to build Medium votes (which we’ve been thinking about anyway) and make shortform use them”)
Huh? How does strong-upvote-by-default make it any easier to distinguish the “likely to be interesting”? Oh, with the model that old-timers are more interesting always, I guess I get it, but I don’t actually agree.
I’d drop strong voting entirely, perhaps replacing it with medium-voting, but definitely keep it intentional and optional. I really hate seeing comments (even mine) with karma in the teens or twenties and just a few votes.