I am going to turn from a lurker to do the manual version of this.
I am not sure I am subcultured enough to align my votes with the consensus. Doing it this way can elict more explicit reasoning of why posts get voted the way they do. Of course doing this will automatically make the comment meta-discussion. I plan to do very short, word or phrase like motivations for both why the post was worthwile and why it wasn’t.
I won’t read all threads and I am not doing a public service (so don’t count on me doing this). I am thinking of leaving a comment on every thread start post that I read and always voting either up or down. For discussion in comments I will think I will have a heuristic of judging long and critical (at sole my intuitive criterion) posts. Long posts drain more attention so they better use it productively. Non-throwaway posts are more in need of feedback and dialog.
I think that reasons for up and downvote are quite distinct few per person voting. Having that information plainly in view would take a lot of implicit misunderstanding away. Off-course there are risks in more subtle and harder to pronounce feedback being trampled. Not everyone wants to be crockered.
Anyone have more reservations that I could be aware of beforehand? Know that I am open to discussion regarding this behaviour.
I have ceased to do this. It felt like being a judge and atleast a couple of discussion posts I probably discouraged the poster more with a reasoned downvote than with a silent downvote. It brought to my attention that I didn’t really have consistent, good or defensible way of voting. Not sure whether this expliciation would cause this to other users. My conception on what karma is and how it should be used has been mangled.
I am surprised that anyone from the internet can come and highjack the voting system to use as they see fit. I am putting the hammer down realising I didn’t know what I was building.
I think you should try it and see how it works out.
I also can’t see any downsides except that it may take up more time than you want, but that may simply mean that you read fewer articles and write more comments.
It’s possible that if everyone posted explanations for their votes, LW would get cluttered with those comments, but there’s no reason to think everyone is going to start posting explanations. Or perhaps the solution would be that an upvote for an explanation is the only thing which doesn’t require an explanation—the upvote is equivalent to “Me too”.
I am going to turn from a lurker to do the manual version of this.
I am not sure I am subcultured enough to align my votes with the consensus. Doing it this way can elict more explicit reasoning of why posts get voted the way they do. Of course doing this will automatically make the comment meta-discussion. I plan to do very short, word or phrase like motivations for both why the post was worthwile and why it wasn’t.
I won’t read all threads and I am not doing a public service (so don’t count on me doing this). I am thinking of leaving a comment on every thread start post that I read and always voting either up or down. For discussion in comments I will think I will have a heuristic of judging long and critical (at sole my intuitive criterion) posts. Long posts drain more attention so they better use it productively. Non-throwaway posts are more in need of feedback and dialog.
I think that reasons for up and downvote are quite distinct few per person voting. Having that information plainly in view would take a lot of implicit misunderstanding away. Off-course there are risks in more subtle and harder to pronounce feedback being trampled. Not everyone wants to be crockered.
Anyone have more reservations that I could be aware of beforehand? Know that I am open to discussion regarding this behaviour.
I have ceased to do this. It felt like being a judge and atleast a couple of discussion posts I probably discouraged the poster more with a reasoned downvote than with a silent downvote. It brought to my attention that I didn’t really have consistent, good or defensible way of voting. Not sure whether this expliciation would cause this to other users. My conception on what karma is and how it should be used has been mangled.
I am surprised that anyone from the internet can come and highjack the voting system to use as they see fit. I am putting the hammer down realising I didn’t know what I was building.
Thanks for writing the followup.
I think you should try it and see how it works out.
I also can’t see any downsides except that it may take up more time than you want, but that may simply mean that you read fewer articles and write more comments.
It’s possible that if everyone posted explanations for their votes, LW would get cluttered with those comments, but there’s no reason to think everyone is going to start posting explanations. Or perhaps the solution would be that an upvote for an explanation is the only thing which doesn’t require an explanation—the upvote is equivalent to “Me too”.