While I approve of the Sunshine Regiment I don’t think “tragedy of the commons” is a good model for normal voting pattern. I would instead encourage people who downvote a post because they think it doesn’t belong on the front page to write a comment outlining their reasoning.
Afterwards people who agree with that reasoning can vote it up while people who disagree can vote it down. That’s the mechanism we used to build a sort of case law on the old LW and it doesn’t feel like a tragedy.
The problem with writing a comment explaining a downvote is that comments draw attention to posts via recent comments, working against the intent; if that issue can be solved I think this would be good practice.
While I approve of the Sunshine Regiment I don’t think “tragedy of the commons” is a good model for normal voting pattern. I would instead encourage people who downvote a post because they think it doesn’t belong on the front page to write a comment outlining their reasoning.
Afterwards people who agree with that reasoning can vote it up while people who disagree can vote it down. That’s the mechanism we used to build a sort of case law on the old LW and it doesn’t feel like a tragedy.
The problem with writing a comment explaining a downvote is that comments draw attention to posts via recent comments, working against the intent; if that issue can be solved I think this would be good practice.