I wonder whether it would be a good idea to implement a feedback mechanism like this—multiple feedback buttons below the article (“agree”, “disagree”, “interesting”, “stupid”, etc.) and the user could just click one… and then, optionally, write a comment, but the vote would count also without the comment. (Maybe a limit of one vote per IP address?)
The idea is that clicking the button is even easier than writing a comment, so if you want more feedback...
Claim 2: Comments are a high-quality, high-sensitivity measure of engagement with little in the way of viable substitutes.
If you want to discuss this claim, I encourage you to do it as a reply to this comment.
I wonder whether it would be a good idea to implement a feedback mechanism like this—multiple feedback buttons below the article (“agree”, “disagree”, “interesting”, “stupid”, etc.) and the user could just click one… and then, optionally, write a comment, but the vote would count also without the comment. (Maybe a limit of one vote per IP address?)
The idea is that clicking the button is even easier than writing a comment, so if you want more feedback...