Not a bad idea. Popup on thumbs up/ thumbs down. Particularly useful for down votes, where an unexplained karma down vote often just seems impolite to me—it’s just not very constructive to say “you stink” if it’s unclear what you’re complaining about.
But I maintain that the main problem here isn’t that we have too few ways to vote, but too few ways to use votes and other information to filter posts in a user customized fashion. Well, I shouldn’t say “we”, because some people have a further problem that they just don’t want some posts to exist, or be seen by anyone.
Not a bad idea. Popup on thumbs up/ thumbs down. Particularly useful for down votes, where an unexplained karma down vote often just seems impolite to me—it’s just not very constructive to say “you stink” if it’s unclear what you’re complaining about.
But I maintain that the main problem here isn’t that we have too few ways to vote, but too few ways to use votes and other information to filter posts in a user customized fashion. Well, I shouldn’t say “we”, because some people have a further problem that they just don’t want some posts to exist, or be seen by anyone.