Feature suggestion: unexplained strong downvotes have been something that bothered people for a long time, and requiring a comment to strongly downvote has been suggested several times before. I agree that this is too much to require, so I have a similar but different idea. When you strong upvote (both positive and negative), you’ll have some popup with a few reasons to pick from for why you chose to strongly vote (A bit like the new reacts feature). For strong downvotes it may look like this:
This post is overrated, This post is hazardous, This post is false, This post is below standards.
And for strong upvotes it may look like
This post is underrated, this post is important, etc.
Choosing one of them will be required in order to strongvote (though both will have an ‘other’ option, so you don’t have to pick a reason that isn’t actually your reason). Those reasons will be shown anonymously either to the author or to everyone.
Yeah, I do think that’s not super crazy. I do think that it needs some kind of “other” option, since I definitely vote for lots of complicated reasons, and I also don’t want to be too morally prescriptive about the reasons for why something is allowed to be downvoted or upvoted (like, I think if someone can think of a reason something should be downvoted that I didn’t think of, I think they should still downvote, and not wait until I come around to seeing the world the way they see it).
Yep, the purpose is providing the author with information, without making it too burdensome to strongvote, and without restricting when a strongvote is allowed.
Feature suggestion: unexplained strong downvotes have been something that bothered people for a long time, and requiring a comment to strongly downvote has been suggested several times before. I agree that this is too much to require, so I have a similar but different idea. When you strong upvote (both positive and negative), you’ll have some popup with a few reasons to pick from for why you chose to strongly vote (A bit like the new reacts feature). For strong downvotes it may look like this:
This post is overrated, This post is hazardous, This post is false, This post is below standards.
And for strong upvotes it may look like
This post is underrated, this post is important, etc.
Choosing one of them will be required in order to strongvote (though both will have an ‘other’ option, so you don’t have to pick a reason that isn’t actually your reason). Those reasons will be shown anonymously either to the author or to everyone.
Yeah, I do think that’s not super crazy. I do think that it needs some kind of “other” option, since I definitely vote for lots of complicated reasons, and I also don’t want to be too morally prescriptive about the reasons for why something is allowed to be downvoted or upvoted (like, I think if someone can think of a reason something should be downvoted that I didn’t think of, I think they should still downvote, and not wait until I come around to seeing the world the way they see it).
Seems worth an experiment, I think.
Yep, the purpose is providing the author with information, without making it too burdensome to strongvote, and without restricting when a strongvote is allowed.