That’s exactly the point: voting is supposed to put comments in order according to quality, so that you can read the worthwhile comments in a reasonable time. My claim is that the current voting system will not do this well at all and that a dual voting system will be better. (That second bit is just a guess). The opinion poll information is just a nice side effect.
OK, so according to you and Benja the point is to have the agree/disagree buttons there mainly as a lightning rod to prevent agreement from affecting quality votes. That’s a good point, but I wonder if it’s worth it and if there are better ways to accomplish the same thing.
I also wonder if there should be a button labeled “malevolent cantaloupe” so the unserious people will click on that instead of voting.
That’s exactly the point: voting is supposed to put comments in order according to quality, so that you can read the worthwhile comments in a reasonable time. My claim is that the current voting system will not do this well at all and that a dual voting system will be better. (That second bit is just a guess). The opinion poll information is just a nice side effect.
OK, so according to you and Benja the point is to have the agree/disagree buttons there mainly as a lightning rod to prevent agreement from affecting quality votes. That’s a good point, but I wonder if it’s worth it and if there are better ways to accomplish the same thing.
I also wonder if there should be a button labeled “malevolent cantaloupe” so the unserious people will click on that instead of voting.