Include options to vote “score voting style” (bounded ratings) or “quadratic style” (ratings with bounded euclidean norm). I’d suggest scaling the SV votes so that their average euclidean norm is the same as that of the QV votes. (The strategy in this case is relatively obvious, but the strategic leverage isn’t too high, and the stakes are relatively low, so I wouldn’t worry too much.)
This is similar to what I was personally imagining, and what I think I’d personally want.
When I went through the 75 posts myself, imagining voting for them, what I found was that I basically wanted to put each post into one of a few buckets, something like:
“no” – not a contender for book
“decent” – a pretty neat idea, or a ‘quite good’ idea that wasn’t well argued for
“quite good” – some combination of “the idea is quite important; or, the conversation moved forward significantly; or, a neat idea was extraordinarily well argued for with excellent epistemics”
“crucial” – this is a foundational piece that I hope one day becomes ‘canon’
(I could imagine wanting to downvote posts, but in this case there weren’t any I wanted to rank lower than ‘no’)
One additional thing I kinda wanted out of this the ability to flag (and aggregate data) about which posts had better or worse epistemic virtue. At first I thought of having two different voting scales, one for “value” and the other for “is this literally true, and/or did the author demonstrate thoughtfulness in how they considered the idea?”
I was worried about the obvious failure mode, where e.g OkCupid creates a “personality” and “attractiveness” scale, but it turns out the halo effect swamps any additional information you might have gleaned, and the two scales mapped perfectly.
When I attempted to rate each post myself, what I found was I almost always ranked epistemics and importance the same (or at least it wasn’t obvious that they were more than “1 point” away from each other on a 1-10 scale), but that were a few specific posts I wanted to flag as “punching above or below their weight epistemically.”
I’m not quite sure if this is worth any additional complexity. A simple option is to leave a “comments” box for each post where people can explain their vote in plain english. I’m a little sad that doesn’t give us the ability to aggregate information though. (A simple boolean, er, three-option radio radio button, with optional ‘punches above its weight epistemically’ or ‘punches below its weight epistemically’ might work)
This is similar to what I was personally imagining, and what I think I’d personally want.
When I went through the 75 posts myself, imagining voting for them, what I found was that I basically wanted to put each post into one of a few buckets, something like:
“no” – not a contender for book
“decent” – a pretty neat idea, or a ‘quite good’ idea that wasn’t well argued for
“quite good” – some combination of “the idea is quite important; or, the conversation moved forward significantly; or, a neat idea was extraordinarily well argued for with excellent epistemics”
“crucial” – this is a foundational piece that I hope one day becomes ‘canon’
(I could imagine wanting to downvote posts, but in this case there weren’t any I wanted to rank lower than ‘no’)
One additional thing I kinda wanted out of this the ability to flag (and aggregate data) about which posts had better or worse epistemic virtue. At first I thought of having two different voting scales, one for “value” and the other for “is this literally true, and/or did the author demonstrate thoughtfulness in how they considered the idea?”
I was worried about the obvious failure mode, where e.g OkCupid creates a “personality” and “attractiveness” scale, but it turns out the halo effect swamps any additional information you might have gleaned, and the two scales mapped perfectly.
When I attempted to rate each post myself, what I found was I almost always ranked epistemics and importance the same (or at least it wasn’t obvious that they were more than “1 point” away from each other on a 1-10 scale), but that were a few specific posts I wanted to flag as “punching above or below their weight epistemically.”
I’m not quite sure if this is worth any additional complexity. A simple option is to leave a “comments” box for each post where people can explain their vote in plain english. I’m a little sad that doesn’t give us the ability to aggregate information though. (A simple boolean, er, three-option radio radio button, with optional ‘punches above its weight epistemically’ or ‘punches below its weight epistemically’ might work)