Bonus suggestion: Reinterpret “∧” and “∨” as meaning “increase the amount of karma I give this post/comment” and “decrease it”, respectively, not as meaning “upvote” and “downvote” per se. So e.g. if you find a new comment and click ∧ once, that gives +1 karma; if you click ∧ a second time, then if your user karma is high enough, it goes up to +2 karma; etc. This means that clicking ∧ once followed by ∨ once results in 0, not in −1; this is the method for removing your vote entirely.
Giving <0 karma to something counts as a “downvote”; giving >0 karma counts as an “upvote”; giving 0 counts as not voting.
If you click and hold on the ∧ or ∨, a scale appears and you can drag the karma weighting of your vote along a -n to +n bar, where moving it to 0 will remove your vote.
There’s a clear visual animation that pops up when you click the ∧ or ∨ and successfully increase someone’s karma, whereas an inconspicuous “nothing happened!” bubble pops up if you try to up or down something past the point where you’re allowed to allocate that much karma or negkarma.
Bonus suggestion: Reinterpret “∧” and “∨” as meaning “increase the amount of karma I give this post/comment” and “decrease it”, respectively, not as meaning “upvote” and “downvote” per se. So e.g. if you find a new comment and click ∧ once, that gives +1 karma; if you click ∧ a second time, then if your user karma is high enough, it goes up to +2 karma; etc. This means that clicking ∧ once followed by ∨ once results in 0, not in −1; this is the method for removing your vote entirely.
Giving <0 karma to something counts as a “downvote”; giving >0 karma counts as an “upvote”; giving 0 counts as not voting.
If you click and hold on the ∧ or ∨, a scale appears and you can drag the karma weighting of your vote along a -n to +n bar, where moving it to 0 will remove your vote.
There’s a clear visual animation that pops up when you click the ∧ or ∨ and successfully increase someone’s karma, whereas an inconspicuous “nothing happened!” bubble pops up if you try to up or down something past the point where you’re allowed to allocate that much karma or negkarma.