I do think a good site equilibrium would be “upvotes are *only* used to promote things to other people’s attention, reactions are used to give positive reinforcement” would be pretty good and better than what we have now.
It’s not quite right, because I also want people’s longterm site attention-allocational power to be able to take into account them executing good algorithms, in addition to actually outputting good content.
(Also, I’d prefer if people weighed in on Giant Social Drama fights via reactions rather than voting, but I’m not sure it’s possible to stop that. i.e ‘ah my opponent is so WRONG I want them to get less attention’ or vice versa)
I do think a good site equilibrium would be “upvotes are *only* used to promote things to other people’s attention, reactions are used to give positive reinforcement” would be pretty good and better than what we have now.
It’s not quite right, because I also want people’s longterm site attention-allocational power to be able to take into account them executing good algorithms, in addition to actually outputting good content.
(Also, I’d prefer if people weighed in on Giant Social Drama fights via reactions rather than voting, but I’m not sure it’s possible to stop that. i.e ‘ah my opponent is so WRONG I want them to get less attention’ or vice versa)
Maybe a “give eigentrust” option distinct from voting, or, heck decouple those two actions completely.