I’m a huge fan of agree/disagree voting. I think it’s an excellent example of a social media feature that nudges users towards truth, and I’d be excited to see more features like it.
I think the reacts being semantic instead of being random emojis is what makes this so much better.
I wish other platforms experimented with semantic reacts as well, instead of just letting people react with any emoji of their choosing, and making you guess whether e.g. “thumbs up” means agreement, acknowledgement, or endorsement, etc.
It seems like it would be useful to have it for top-level posts. I love disagree voting and there are massive disparities sometimes between upvotes and agreements that show how useful it is in surfacing good arguments that are controversial.
I think I’m seeing some high effort, topical and well-researched top-level posts die on the vine because of controversial takes that are probably disagree voting. This is not a complaint about my own posts sometimes dying; I’ve been watching others posts with this hypothesis, and it fits.
Inline agree/disagree reacts are trying to do the equivalent. Comments are short enough that usually you can summarize your epistemic state with regards to their contents into a single “agree or disagree”, but for posts I feel like it really mostly sets things up for polarization and misunderstandings to have a bunch of people “agree” and “disagree” to a huge bundle of claims and statements.
I think it’s better for people to highlight specific passages of text and then react to those.
I’m a huge fan of agree/disagree voting. I think it’s an excellent example of a social media feature that nudges users towards truth, and I’d be excited to see more features like it.
I also enjoy the reacts way more than I expected! They feel aesthetically at home here, especially with reacts for specific parts of the text.
I think the reacts being semantic instead of being random emojis is what makes this so much better.
I wish other platforms experimented with semantic reacts as well, instead of just letting people react with any emoji of their choosing, and making you guess whether e.g. “thumbs up” means agreement, acknowledgement, or endorsement, etc.
It seems like it would be useful to have it for top-level posts. I love disagree voting and there are massive disparities sometimes between upvotes and agreements that show how useful it is in surfacing good arguments that are controversial.
I think I’m seeing some high effort, topical and well-researched top-level posts die on the vine because of controversial takes that are probably disagree voting. This is not a complaint about my own posts sometimes dying; I’ve been watching others posts with this hypothesis, and it fits.
I guess there’s a reason for not having it on top-level posts, but I miss having it on top-level posts.
Do you know the reasons? It seems like it would be useful to have it on top-level posts for the same reasons it’s so helpful on comments.
IDK the reasons.
Inline agree/disagree reacts are trying to do the equivalent. Comments are short enough that usually you can summarize your epistemic state with regards to their contents into a single “agree or disagree”, but for posts I feel like it really mostly sets things up for polarization and misunderstandings to have a bunch of people “agree” and “disagree” to a huge bundle of claims and statements.
I think it’s better for people to highlight specific passages of text and then react to those.
Ooh. That makes a lot of sense and is even better… I simply didn’t realize there were inline reacts! Kudos.
I’d like to like this more but I don’t have a clear idea of when to up one, up the other, down one, down the other, or down one and up the other.