I liked the idea I think you mentioned in an earlier thread about this, where each click increases vote weight by one. It’s conceptually very simple, which I think is a good property for a UI. It does involve more clicks to apply more voting power, but that doesn’t seem bad to me. How often does one need to give something the maximum amount of votes, such that extra clicks are a problem? It seems to me this would tend to default to giving everyone the same voting power, but allow users with more karma to summon more voting power with very slightly more effort if they think it’s warranted. That feels right to me.
(A possible downside I see is that it might somehow do the opposite—that voting will feel like something that is reinforced in a conditioning sense, so that users with more voting power will get more reinforcers since they do click->reward more times, and that this will actually give them a habit of wanting to apply the maximum vote more than they otherwise would because it feels satisfying to vote repeatedly. This isn’t clearly a lot worse than the situation we have now, where you always vote maximum with no option.)
I liked the idea I think you mentioned in an earlier thread about this, where each click increases vote weight by one. It’s conceptually very simple, which I think is a good property for a UI. It does involve more clicks to apply more voting power, but that doesn’t seem bad to me. How often does one need to give something the maximum amount of votes, such that extra clicks are a problem? It seems to me this would tend to default to giving everyone the same voting power, but allow users with more karma to summon more voting power with very slightly more effort if they think it’s warranted. That feels right to me.
If this is implemented, I think there should be a dot between the two vote buttons to reset the vote to 0.
(A possible downside I see is that it might somehow do the opposite—that voting will feel like something that is reinforced in a conditioning sense, so that users with more voting power will get more reinforcers since they do click->reward more times, and that this will actually give them a habit of wanting to apply the maximum vote more than they otherwise would because it feels satisfying to vote repeatedly. This isn’t clearly a lot worse than the situation we have now, where you always vote maximum with no option.)