How about buttons “High quality”, “Low quality”, “Accurate”, “Inaccurate”. We’re increasing options here, but there’s probably a nice way to design the interface to reduce the cognitive load.
Using the word “vote” seems broken here more generally—we aren’t implementing some democratic process, we’re aggregating judgments (read: collecting evidence) across a population.
“High quality” / “Low quality” has good brevity, but for myself I’m still tempted to blend in agreement/disagreement with my ratings when I picture those words—to regard comments I disagree with as “low quality”. If we could have the question “Does this add to or subtract from the conversation?” surrounded by up/down arrows (or by “adds” / “subtracts”), I imagine myself voting better.
For example, I just up-voted James Andrix’s and Kurige’s comments about their religious beliefs.
I up-voted the comments because they’re good data, I’m glad the commenters shared it, and it looks like stuff more eyes should look at within the thread. But I hesitated, because “up-voting” gives the appearance of agreement. Rating Kurige’s comment “high quality” feels a bit similar, like calling it “high quality reasoning”. But clicking up-arrow next to the question “Does this add to the conversation?” would feel obvious, to me in this case.
How about buttons “High quality”, “Low quality”, “Accurate”, “Inaccurate”. We’re increasing options here, but there’s probably a nice way to design the interface to reduce the cognitive load.
Using the word “vote” seems broken here more generally—we aren’t implementing some democratic process, we’re aggregating judgments (read: collecting evidence) across a population.
I completely agree about the word “vote”.
“High quality” / “Low quality” has good brevity, but for myself I’m still tempted to blend in agreement/disagreement with my ratings when I picture those words—to regard comments I disagree with as “low quality”. If we could have the question “Does this add to or subtract from the conversation?” surrounded by up/down arrows (or by “adds” / “subtracts”), I imagine myself voting better.
For example, I just up-voted James Andrix’s and Kurige’s comments about their religious beliefs.
I up-voted the comments because they’re good data, I’m glad the commenters shared it, and it looks like stuff more eyes should look at within the thread. But I hesitated, because “up-voting” gives the appearance of agreement. Rating Kurige’s comment “high quality” feels a bit similar, like calling it “high quality reasoning”. But clicking up-arrow next to the question “Does this add to the conversation?” would feel obvious, to me in this case.